Red light cameras do not work. But anjuli davis is live in tampa with more. It is the controversy that will not quit. The cameras have been controversial since they were approved in 2010 in florida. Lawmakers say they want them gone, saying the statistics show they are not making a dent with the drivers. It is video that is hard to watch. The camera images from the sarasota pd shows a car and a dump truck going through the lights. And dodging traffic before crashing into a parking lot. It is a good indication how running can be. Police say they have encouraged more drivers. We have dropped for the first three, 4 years. Report from Highway Safety challenges that notion. It found the total number of accidents increased following the installation of the cameras at intersections. Now a bill working its way through the Florida House is aiming to shut down the cameras for good. In the intersections where the lights are, they have increased. Traffic fatalities have increased. A house represen
LAKE WALES Florida’s only citywide charter-school district is undergoing a leadership convulsion of sorts 16 years after converting five of the city’s seven schools to charters and adding two charter middle schools.
It also comes nine years after the state made Lake Wales a “local education agency,” which meant Lake Wales was its own school district albeit one without elected officials who could be held accountable by voters.
This school year, Jesse Jackson, the charter district s superintendent, told district officials that he would be leaving, either at the end of the calendar year or the end of the school year. Then, at a heated board meeting in late October, School Board Chairman Danny Gill announced he was resigning. The next month, the board unanimously voted to reinstate him as vice chairman.