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Lawmakers will consider banning red-light cameras when they meet in January for the 2012 legislative session. A repeal bill was filed Tuesday. As Whitney Ray tells us, the cameras were first approved by the state in 2010 and since then, opposition to the devices has been growing. <\/p>\n

It took Melissa Wandall five years to convince the legislature to approve red light cameras. Her journey began after her husband was killed by a red light runner.<\/p>\n

?I promised my husband that I would take care of my family and that I would make a reason for what happened that night at the intersection,? said Wandall in April of 2010, just days before the legislature approved red-light cameras. <\/p>\n

A few months after the bill became law, angry drivers began complaining the devices were ripping them off. Reports of cities shortening yellow lights to catch drivers and tickets being issued to people who weren?t behind the wheel, made it to lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Less than a year after the bill passed, a repeal bill was filed. The legislation passed the House on a narrow vote late in the 2011 legislative session. But it died in the Senate. <\/p>\n

?We had support in the House for that measure and I think we will have support again in the House for that measure,? said Representative Richard Corcoran in an October interview. <\/p>\n

Corcoran spearheaded the repeal efforts. Now the torch has been handed to Representative Scott Plakon. Plakon filed a new repeal bill Tuesday. Besides legislative efforts, some city and county governments are taking a stand against the cameras. Manatee County has temporarily pulled the plug on its red-light cameras and Gainesville decided earlier this month not to install the devices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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