CHICAGO (WLS) — Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza has announced that next month, her office will stop helping municipalities collect fines for red light camera tickets.

"My office is taking decisive action in response to unethical arrangements that have come to light regarding the red-light camera industry," Mendoza said. "As a matter of public policy, this system is clearly broken. I am exercising the moral authority to prevent state resources being used to assist a shady process that victimizes taxpayers."

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The General Assembly allowed municipalities to use the Comptroller’s office to help collect debts through withholding of state income tax refunds or other state payments starting in 2012, Mendoza’s office said. The state does not collect for Chicago’s red light camera or speeding camera tickets.

Mendoza said fines for red light cameras fall disproportionately on minority and low-income drivers.

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In her press release announcing the changes, Mendoza cited a story

by the ABC7 I-Team and Chicago Sun Times

that found most red light tickets go to drivers cited for turning on red and not drivers who go through an intersection during red lights.

"I think it’s critical that the state’s collection mechanisms should not be hijacked by political insiders to profit from an enforcement system whose integrity is now being seriously questioned," Mendoza said.