TAMPA -- Hillsborough County Commission chairman Ken Hagan is expected to introduce an ordinance today to install red-light cameras. ...more

February 20, 2008

Red-light running has become epidemic in Hillsborough County. In the last two years, more than 800 crashes and three fatalities happened when someone didn't stop for a red light. ...more

February 4, 2008

Hillsborough County has taken the first steps toward joining communities across the nation in putting up cameras at intersections and snapping photos of red-light runners. ...more

January 26, 2008

Don't Blame Cameras Regarding "Red-Light Cameras Don't Stop Accidents" (Other views, Jan 23): ...more

January 26, 2008

TAMPA - Hillsborough County has taken the first steps toward joining communities across the nation in putting up cameras at intersections and snapping photos of red-light runners. ...more

January 25, 2008

Regarding, "Cameras Could Improve Safety," (Letters, Jan. 7): Red-light running cameras are about money, not safety. Peggy Warren-Sipes wrote that Seattle invested $420,000 in cameras and netted $1.1 million in related ticket revenues. Concerns exist that if cities profit from cameras, they will not invest in needed traffic signal engineering improvements that reduce violations and crashes. ...more

January 23, 2008

TAMPA - Cities across the nation are dipping their toes into the surveillance pool, using electronic eyes at troublesome intersections and snapping incriminating photos of red-light runners. ...more

January 22, 2008

Red-light cameras are a gray area in Florida law. The state says communities can install the traffic control devices, but can't really use them, because a police officer must observe a violation to issue a ticket. ...more

December 11, 2007

Port Richey may be courting an image problem by installing cameras at intersections in the city to catch red light runners. ...more

October 31, 2007

The city expects to move ahead with a plan to install red light cameras near several intersections, which will thrust this small west Pasco municipality into the statewide debate over use of the traffic control devices. ...more

October 27, 2007