Civic Accountability — Aurora, Colorado
Elevated Aurora is a community organization dedicated to government transparency and accountability in Aurora, Colorado. Our first initiative: exposing serious legal violations in the city's Automated Photo Speed Enforcement Program.
Who We Are
Elevated Aurora began when one Aurora resident received a photo speed enforcement citation and decided to read the law. What he found wasn't a technicality — it was a pattern of systematic non-compliance with Colorado statute that affects every single citation the program has issued.
Aurora voters rejected red-light camera surveillance in 2018. The city launched a speed camera pilot in 2022, lost over $535,000 of taxpayer money, cancelled it, and quietly relaunched it in November 2025 with a new private vendor — without ensuring the program complies with the law that governs it.
We believe government should play by the rules it writes. When it doesn't, residents deserve to know.
Aurora contracted this program to Verra Mobility, a for-profit corporation based in Mesa, Arizona. Under contract R-2440 — obtained through a CORA public records request — the program is projected to generate $2.68 million in net revenue for the city over five years, based on issuing 2,203 tickets per month.
The financial incentive is clear. What is equally clear, from Aurora's own records, is that the legal foundation required to collect those fines was never properly established.
We are not anti-safety. We are pro-accountability. If Aurora wants to enforce speed limits with automated cameras, it must do so lawfully.
In the News
A class action lawsuit has been filed — and the story is being covered across Colorado. The legal questions raised by Aurora's photo enforcement program have drawn scrutiny from journalists, the lawmakers who wrote the state statute, and now the courts.
Fox31 covered the class action lawsuit filed against the City of Aurora over the photo radar program, reporting that Aurora drivers who paid their citations may be entitled to refunds if the lawsuit succeeds. The story featured an in-person interview with attorney Alex Dorotik of Ingenuity Law Colorado.
We are filing a class action lawsuit seeking a refund of all monies collected under the speed camera program.
The Issue
This violation is established not by opinion, but by Aurora's own public records — and it's now the basis of an active class action lawsuit.
Colorado law requires that recipients of photo speed citations be given a minimum of 45 days to respond. Aurora's notices give 30 days — 15 days fewer than the law requires. This is not an isolated error on one citation. It appears to be the standard template used for every notice the program has issued since December 2025.
A class action lawsuit based on this violation has been filed on behalf of all affected Aurora citation recipients. Read the full complaint filed in Arapahoe County District Court, Case No. 2026CV31577 ↗
Contact
If you received a citation from Aurora's photo enforcement program — whether you paid it or not — you are already a potential class member in the active lawsuit. You do not need to contact us or take any action to be included. Aurora is required to identify class members as part of the litigation process.
We are filing a class action lawsuit seeking a refund of all monies collected under the speed camera program.
The contact form below is intended for people whose situation falls outside the Aurora class action — specifically, those who received a citation from a different city's automated speed enforcement program with less than 45 days to respond, or members of the press.