If you haven't paid your tickets from Redflex, the company that once operated the speed cameras in Lafayette, you may soon be hearing from a debt collector.
As of last May, there were more than 11,900 unpaid parking tickets, and the city is trying to recover more than $3 million in unpaid traffic-camera violations.
While council members could have voted on the ordinance tonight, they chose to defer on a decision pending the outcome of a proposed amendment to the RedFlex contract which would ask the red light program company to pay for 40 percent of collections fees in exchange for 40 percent of base fines and late fees.
Tonight, the Lafayette Parish Council will finally decide whether or not to keep the city's automated ticketing traffic camera system known as Redflex. The debate has been going on now for about month in council meetings. The ordinance that looks to remove the system operated by Redflex was created by council chair Jared Bellard, vice chair William Theriot, and Andy Naquin...