Editing Coburg, Oregon (section)

=== Speed trap ===
Until the practice was discontinued in 2005, Coburg's city government had generated hundreds of thousands of dollars for its budget through [[Moving violation|speeding]] fines at a [[speed limit enforcement|speed trap]] on [[Interstate 5 in Oregon|Interstate 5]] located outside of city limits.<ref name="theNewspaper.com">{{cite web | url = http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/08/811.asp | title = Coburg, Oregon Speed Trap Returns | access-date = 2009-01-29 | date = 2005-12-02 | publisher = theNewspaper.com }}</ref> By 2003, the city was raising nearly half of its $1.7 million annual budget through traffic fines.<ref name="SeattleTimes">{{cite news | url = http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004103025_weborspeedtrap01m.html | title = Notorious for I-5 speed traps, Coburg police clean up their act | access-date = 2009-01-29 | date = 2008-01-01 | newspaper = [[The Seattle Times]] }}</ref> The speed trap was temporarily ended when [[Floyd Prozanski]], a state legislator from Eugene, sponsored bills to make the practice against the law, effective January 2004.<ref name="theNewspaper.com"/> Police Chief Hudson also lost his job, following the adoption of the new law.<ref name="SeattleTimes"/> However, the city [[Annexation|annexed]] a segment of I-5, which enabled the city to continue raising revenue this way.<ref name="theNewspaper.com"/>