RedSpeed season in Baldwin County is less than three weeks away, with opening day set for Aug. 5, when Baldwin County School District kids return to school.
With this in mind, here’s a look back at the 2025-26 RedSpeed season, with data supplied by the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office and Milledgeville Police Department.
MIDWAY HILLS TAKES THE TITLE
The RedSpeed zone on US 441 South, past Midway Hills Elementary School, easily racked up the most citations during the previous school year. A total of 5,925 citations were mailed out, an average of 33 per school day. The three highest recorded speeds through Midway Hills were 81, 79, and 77 mph.
The average number of daily tickets for the other RedSpeed zones:
• Log Cabin Road/John Milledge Academy – 14.2 per school day
• Blandy Road/Oak Hill Middle – 12.4 per school day
• Ga. 49/Baldwin High – 9.4 per school day
• Elbert Street/Georgia Military College – 1.4 per school day The fact that Blandy Road racked up more than Ga. 49 is perhaps surprising, based on the fact that Ga. 49 is a state highway. The Georgia Department of Transportation most recently placed the average daily traffic count on Blandy Road in front of Oak Hill at 3,680, while the average daily traffic count on Ga. 49 near Baldwin High at 8,700.
EITHERTHEY DON’TLEARN ORDON’TCARE
Roughly 8.5 percent of Redspeed citations issued during the previous school year were repeat violators.
In recent years, the fine has been $75 for the first violation and $125 for each subsequent violation. That’s set to change this school year, however, thanks to legislation in the Georgia General Assembly. The new legislation caps the ticket amount at $75, regardless of how many citations one vehicle racks up.
Also, moving forward, RedSpeed tickets can be thrown out if someone other than the owner of the vehicle was driving when the vehicle was ticketed. Previously, all citations were issued to the owner of the vehicle, regardless of who was driving. Now, motorists can “testify under oath in open court or submits to the court a sworn notarized statement that he or she was not the operator of the vehicle at the time of the alleged violation.”
Also, the reduced “school zone speed limit” can only be enforced for a one-hour window in the morning and a one-hour window in the afternoon.
This will impact South Elbert Street along Georgia Military College’s campus. In recent years, the school zone speed limit has been 30 miles per hour from 7 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. on school days. Beginning in August, however, it will be only 30 mph for one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon.
During the bulk of school each day, the speed limit will be 35 through GMC, which means that 46 mph will trigger a speeding ticket instead of 41, aside from the one hour in the morning and the one hour in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, the rest of Baldwin County’s RedSpeed zones – Midway Hills Elementary, Baldwin High, John Milledge Academy, Oak Hill Middle/Lakeview Primary/Midway Hills Primary – already operate on a “one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon” schedule.
MIDWAY HILLS: CASHCOW
Thanks largely to the Midway Hills zone, the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office collected more money from RedSpeed than the Milledgeville Police Department. The BCSO collected roughly $312,000 from RedSpeed during the previous school year.
RedSpeed handles the logistics side and transactional side, charging the BCSO and MPD a series of “fees.” When it’s all said and done, however, the law enforcement agencies receive 65 percent of all “violations paid,” while RedSpeed’s cut is 35 percent.