Two Florida appeals courts are at odds over red light cameras after a Wednesday ruling.
The Third District Court of Appeal has invalidated a lower court’s decision to dismiss a red light camera ticket issued in Aventura. At oral argument, Judge Thomas Logue pressed the city’s attorney about the plaintiff’s concerns with the red light camera vendor American Traffic Solutions, or ATS.
“The decision, not to prosecute, for a certain category of folks," Logue said, "let’s say the person making the right hand turn going ten miles an hour, that decision—ATS basically says, put it in the non-prosecute box.”
But in siding with the city, the Third DCA may be at odds with the Fourth district—that court ruled against a similar program in Hollywood. The opinion draws distinctions between the two red light camera programs, but it also requests the state Supreme Court to take up and settle the matter.
