As the war over automated traffic enforcement in Florida rages on, the outcome is bound to be felt sharply in Orange County.

The Orlando Sentinel reported on August 23rd that "Orange County leaders could add as many as 80 new red-light cameras over the next two years, but they do not plan to set up even one more until lawmakers decide whether to pull the plug on them next spring."

The Florida House, at the end of this year's legislative session, passed a bill by Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-New Port Richey, repealing the law authorizing cameras -- but the full Senate never took up the bill.

It seems likely that another attempt will be made to shut the cameras down, and as long as such efforts are in the air, the effect should be to hold the dramatic camera expansion in Orange County at bay.


Of course the cameras are bedeviling many Florida locations in addition to Orange County, but Orange County offers a stark example of how your efforts can help control their spread even as you fight to ban them altogether.

Contact your representatives and tell them to introduce or at least support another bill against the cameras; share the correspondence with your local public officials; and share this message with family and friends so that they may do the same.

At the same time you fight for total victory, you keep the camera invasion from gaining any more ground.

Together we will beat this abuse

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