Wet Mountain Tribune

With a new year comes new laws, and for local motorists, there are two new ways to be ticketed. For the first time, a motorist might get a speeding ticket that arrives in the mail­box, but the driver might have no idea they had been seen by local law enforcement. That’s because, on November 13, the Custer County Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance that gives the local Sheriff’s Department the power to use specialized speed guns and cameras to issue tickets that are mailed to speeding drivers automatically. Titled “Establishing an Automated Vehicle Identification System,” the local law has a broad scope of powers that are granted to the local Sheriff’s Office based on changes to the state law that took place in 2024.…