{"id":720,"date":"2011-03-03T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/?p=720"},"modified":"2011-03-04T12:40:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T20:40:55","slug":"florida-officials-red-light-cameras-too-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/florida-officials-red-light-cameras-too-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Officials: Red Light Cameras Too Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some city and local officials in South Florida are concerned about the cost of automatic &#8220;red light&#8221; cameras used to identify drivers who run red lights. <\/p>\n<p>The hope, upon installation of the cameras, was that Florida cities would rake in millions of dollars in fines, as a result of images captured by a network of traffic cameras that exists between Pembroke Pines and Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, growing numbers of motorists are disputing the tickets they receive, and winning court rulings that then limit law enforcement. In Fort Lauderdale, Police Chief Frank Adderly said his department is spending more time than anticipated in reviewing tapes and preparing evidence files. <\/p>\n<p>Joy Cooper, Mayor of Hallandale Beach, argues that the cameras do help improve safety, and that the legal issues can be sorted out. <\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, concern over costs has caused Delray Beach and Boca Raton to delay the installation of cameras. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some city and local officials in South Florida are concerned about the cost of automatic &#8220;red light&#8221; cameras used to identify drivers who run red lights. The hope, upon installation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-safety","category-technology","cat-15-id","cat-117-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}