System targets drivers going 10 mph over the limit. Warnings start now; $100 citations begin Feb. 2.
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Posted inPublic Safety
Understanding Flock Automatic License Plate Readers and Public Safety
The city of Lakeland currently has 27 stationary automatic license plate reader cameras. Here’s what that means for you, LPD and privacy in public spaces.
Posted inTransportation
Lakeland Soon Will Have Twice as Many Traffic Enforcement Cameras
The city plans to install 14 school zone cameras and 8 more red light cameras, bringing its total to 41.
Posted inEducation
Coming Soon: Speed Cameras in School Zones
Lakeland hopes to have 14 cameras outside nine schools by Oct. 1.
Posted inInsight Polk
Dark Roads, Fast Cars: Lakeland Weighs More Cameras and Lower Speeds to Save Lives
Cameras in school zones would be used to cite anyone going more than 10 miles over the limit.
Posted inPublic Safety
Automatic License Plate Readers Will Be a ‘Force Multiplier’ for Lakeland PD
The new law enforcement tool will be paid for with proceeds from the city’s red light camera program.
Posted inTransportation
Lakeland Commissioners Consider Adding More Red-Light Cameras
The camera at South Florida Avenue and Beacon Road needs to be relocated. LPD has suggested two alternate locations.
Posted inPublic Safety
Polk Aims to Ease ‘Abysmal’ Pedestrian Safety Ranking With Grant
On Tuesday evening just before 9 p.m., 27-year-old Hector Daniel Lugo was trying to walk across busy U.S. 98 North near Griffin Road when he was hit by a car and then struck again by a second car, Lakeland police say. Paramedics rushed him to Lakeland Regional Health, where he died a short time later. […]
Posted inPublic Safety
Lakeland-Developed Smart Traffic Signal Program Expanding
The city of Lakeland has designed its own program that uses advances in artificial intelligence to make traffic signals smarter by reacting to dumb decisions made by drivers who rocket into intersections trying to beat red lights. And now that program is about to expand from four intersections to 25.
Posted inCity Hall / Local Gov't
City Approves Body Cameras, Other New Tech for Police
All of Lakeland’s sworn police officers will be equipped with body cameras, under a contract approved unanimously by the City Commission today. The contract with Axon Enterprises Inc. provides police with more equipment than they initially sought and keeps first-year expenses below the budgeted amount.