Luis Torres Jimenez, Petitioner v. State of Florida

Summary

The Court held that section 316.0083(1)(a), Florida Statutes, permits a municipality to contract with a private vendor to review and sort red-light-camera information under written guidelines, so long as a trained traffic enforcement officer alone determines probable cause and whether to issue a citation. The Court also rejected the challenge based on chapter 316's uniformity requirement and approved the Third District's decision. Justice Canady, specially concurring, agreed with the result but emphasized that the dispositive limitation is that only law enforcement or traffic infraction enforcement officers may issue citations.