By Steve Schmadeke, Chicago Tribune reporter – January 25, 2013

The homeowners associations responsible for managing subdivisions across the state have the power to enforce their own traffic rules through a private security force, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday, overturning a lower-court ruling that found they could be unlawful.

Former DuPage County prosecutor Ken Poris sued LaSalle County’s Lake Holiday Property Owners Association after he was pulled over for speeding in 2008 by a vehicle with flashing lights.

A uniformed officer wearing a badge and duty belt took his driver’s license and Lake Holiday membership card back to his squad car and wrote him a $50 speeding ticket. The man wasn’t a police officer but a homeowners association employee with little police training and no state certification.

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