SAN FRANCISCO — The bill’s title bears the mark of the beast, and since its February introduction it’s had critics seeing red.

Now, the state Assembly’s judiciary committee chair who wrote AB 666 is hoping that amending his bill will assuage vocal critics, who fear his proposal to reclassify moving violations caught by red-light traffic cameras from criminal infractions to a civil violation would impede defendants’ right to trial.

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