Redflex

If you haven't paid your tickets from Redflex, the company that once operated the speed cameras in Lafayette, you may soon be hearing from a debt collector.

The red-light cameras will continue to monitor traffic throughout Lafayette for at least one more year.

As of last May, there were more than 11,900 unpaid parking tickets, and the city is trying to recover more than $3 million in unpaid traffic-camera violations.

The Lafayette City-Council has voted to amend its contract with Redflex ahead of the planned amnesty period and subsequent pursuit of citizens with unpaid fines.

The rights of landowners versus the perceived benefits to the public took center stage Tuesday night as Lafayette City-Parish council members gathered for their regularly scheduled meeting.

Most people owe only between $125 and $300 dollars.

Under Lafayette's current contract with Redflex, the entire burden of collecting the money falls to Lafayette.

While council members could have voted on the ordinance tonight, they chose to defer on a decision pending the outcome of a proposed amendment to the RedFlex contract which would ask the red light program company to pay for 40 percent of collections fees in exchange for 40 percent of base fines and late fees.

Right angle crashes at these intersections are down 43 percent since the start of the program, according to the report, while rear end crashes are down 80 percent.

The Council voted and decided that the cameras are going to stay.  The vote to get rid of them was 6-3 against.  But then, something else happened that is sure to raise more than a few eyebrows. The City-Parish Council voted to continue the contract and add four more intersections to the mix, making the count go up to 16...

The news came out the other day.  The City-Parish Council has decided to forward a resolution to end the program for red light cameras.  They also forwarded a resolution to add more cameras to the area. Yes, in the same meeting, they wanted to do both...

They may help slow people down, but at what cost?

Non-binding resolution gives City Parish President Joey Durel go ahead to talk with RedFlex.

If a new contract isn't approved by the Lafayette City-Parish council by June, the cameras will be gone.

This morning on "Lafayette Live" with Ken & Bernie City-Parish President Joey Durel discussed RedFlex cameras.