The camera isn't your accuser. The municipality is your accuser, using the evidence from the camera as proof of the law being broken.
If you break into a building and get busted by an automated silent alarm, the alarm isn't the one accusing you.
If you break into a building and get busted by an automated silent alarm, the alarm isn't the one accusing you.
When i get mailed a ticket from a corporation, who is expected to show up in court to be my 'accuser'?
Some cursory googling turns up this as pretty common, occasionally it will be a police officer.