Illegal School Zone Trap. This is Woodstock Road, just north of Hwy 92 intersection, cops enforcing the Oak Grove Elementary School zone(6118 Woodstock Road Acworth, GA 30102).
Officers (usually 2 HEAT officers) are in the church parking lot, facing north, using LASER on southbound traffic.
Usually it is H.E.A.T. officers. Their cars are parked deep within the church parking lot (to be obstructed from approaching motorists). The officers stand roadside with laser in hand, waving their prey into parking lot.

They zap until 9AM which is when this particular school’s speed zone is over. I spoke with the principal and she said they are on a ‘late schedule’ with busses etc, so that’s why the zone is enforced so late.
Actually Cherokee Co. officers stand in the road and direct traffic from about 8am – 8:45am. Pretty easy not to speed when cops are standing in the middle of the road!
But watch out at 8:45am! If you’re running late to work, you won’t see the usual "traffic-directing-cops" and it’s easy think "Oh well, school zone is over, I’ll stay at 45"….but HEAT is there for their 15 minutes of fame from 8:45am to 9am!

What makes it illegal? Signage as wrong. Starting off, this road is posted 45mph. The school zone drops the speed to 25mph. This is a 20mph drop in speed (45-25 = 20 for you cops out there).
**GA Law states that any time the speed drops by MORE THAN 10MPH, there must be a sign that says "Reduced Speed Ahead". This applies even in school zones. Without this sign, ANY and I do mean ANY speed ticket can easily found NOT Guilty. Such a sign is NOT PRESENT at all!

Also illegal due to the fact that their cruisers are obstructed from view to approaching motorists within 500 feet…again, GA Law! The cruisers are parked so ‘deep’/away from the road, that they are not visible to motorists due to signage and vegitation in church’s yard.

ALSO, the principal said the school zone speed goes until 9:00 AM. However, someone should tell the flashing lights, because they are still flashing well beyond 9AM. And the cops enforce until the flashing lights go out!

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