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Dora Drake: “The Safe Road Save Lives act [includes] speed enforcement…”

Featuring: Dora Drake, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 4

State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon

Published October 7, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:59

Right. So we worked on creating the Safe Road Save Lives act, which is a little bit different. So The Safe Road Save Lives act [includes] speed enforcement cameras and red light [cameras]. they're only activated if you run a red light or if you're Going over the speed limit of 15 miles an hour and it captures. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. (01:59–02:02)

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Asserts that the act includes speed enforcement and red light cameras.

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“We worked on creating the Safe Road Save Lives act, which is a little bit different.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 01:58-02:03
“You only be docked if you're running a red light or if you're running 15 miles over the current speed limit.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 02:26-02:33
“We worked on this piece of legislation and we got to be bipartisan.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 02:54-02:58
“Senator Tomczyk is the lead author in the Senate as myself.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 02:57-03:02
“The funds that would be generated from a ticket can only be used for three things: law enforcement, public safety programs, or traffic…”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 03:41-03:47
“The framework of that would be determined by the city, especially the mayor and the Common Council.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 03:52-03:58
“It has a public hearing where when the public hearing is, you know, and it's tomorrow.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 04:54-05:00
“One of the things that we do have in the legislation is I think a 30 day public awareness campaign.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 05:11-05:17
“We'll be partnering with DOT and the city and there'll be signage of where those cameras would be set up.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 05:23-05:29
“We're only collecting information on the license plate.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 07:36-07:39
“We got bipartisan support to at least give it a public hearing.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 08:35-08:39
“It still has to go through common council. It still has to be debated, go through public hearings to get to the mayor's test assigned to…”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 09:13-09:22
“The state already doesn't have any state statute to allow any type of local government to look into [this].”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 11:52-11:58
“Right now with this piece of legislation, I believe it does fall on the city to look into resources of that nature.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 13:18-13:24
“We're not requiring anything to be enforced. Recruiting the framework to allow the city to create it.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 13:56-14:03
“It's not an unfunded mandate.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 14:02-14:04
“We're giving folks local control.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 14:12-14:15
“A lot of the reasons why we've seen crime increase is because the removal of manufacturers that were here.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 15:16-15:21
“In Wisconsin, the state dictates what shared revenue portion you get for your local government.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 16:39-16:47
“For the longest, that number [shared revenue] wasn't changed for over a decade.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 16:46-16:51
“Act 12 was passed...to address the deficits that our city and county were dealing with.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 16:54-17:02
“The majority of funds that as a city we give to the state, we get a small portion back.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 18:12-18:18
“We removed a lot of the labor protections for certain groups of union members [with Act 10].”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 18:59-19:10
“The state used to get 40% of our funding for health care, Medicaid from the feds.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 20:09-20:17
“We're not getting the majority of that [Medicaid funding] anymore.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 20:18-20:21
“I want to make sure folks know that, like, if you are available, there is a chance for you to testify.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 22:59-23:05
“Come to the public hearing of the summer fest. It starts at 11.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 23:13-23:17
“Tomorrow at 11am Come testify and show and share your story on why you think this piece of legislation needs to pass.”
State Senator Dora Drake Talks Reckless Driving & Public Safety | Truth in the Afternoon | Uploaded October 7, 2025 | 23:18-23:28