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Tamarac moves to test automated school‑zone speed enforcement with conservative rollout
Summary
After reviewing a March traffic study that recorded about 2,058 average daily violations across Tamarac school corridors, commissioners gave staff direction to return an ordinance and a Plantation piggyback contract for automated speed‑camera enforcement limited initially to flashing school‑zone periods (30 minutes before/after) with a 30‑day warning period.
City staff and Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) officers presented findings April 6 from a two‑day March traffic study and proposed a pilot automated speed enforcement program in Tamarac school corridors.
The study recorded two‑day averages of observed violations at several school corridors (Tamarac Elementary 685; Discovery Elementary combined counts on Commercial/Pine Island 850; Renaissance Charter 331; Challenger/Millennium 192) totaling about 2,058 events. Under state statute the civil fine is $100 per violation; after the statutory and vendor splits staff estimated a conservative city revenue share…
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