Dave D,
I saw a story a few weeks ago similar to the one you mentioned. They interviewed a soldiers dad. His son is stationed in Iraq and his car is in storage, yet he received three red light tickets. The soldiers car was black, yet the car in the red light photoswas silver.
When the officers were reviewing the photos of the license numbers, they kept reading a "D" as a "O". Thus the wrong person got three tickets.
The reporter tracked down the owner of the silver car and he admitted it was his vehicle running the lights in the photos.
You would think they would look up the registration to match the car type and color before issuing a citation to the wrong person.

My company just received a citation from Lynnwood for one of our service vehicles. The ticket and remit payment address is from a company in Arizona.