Lakewood Considering Red Light and Speeding Cameras

Red light and speeding traffic cameras are a contentious and well known issue. Lakewood specifics from the staff memo:

• Cameras would have to be installed on arterial streets, not residential.
• The city is looking at vendors who are confident the city will make money from citations, not lose money on cost of cameras
• Would require two additional staff positions with salary/benefits of approximately adequately staff the program, the addition of an FTE AVIS program supervisor with an approximate salary/benefits of $221,000
• Recommendation deploying 11 cameras would incur a monthly cost of $55,000-$60,000