Luis Torres Jimenez, Petitioner v. State of Florida

Summary

The Court held that Florida law permits a municipality to contract with a private vendor to review and sort red-light-camera images under written municipal guidelines, so long as a trained traffic-enforcement officer alone determines probable cause and whether to issue a citation. It also rejected the challenge based on the statutory uniformity requirement and approved the lower appellate decision while declining to reach two ancillary certified questions. Justice Canady, specially concurring, agreed with the result but emphasized that the dispositive requirement is that only law-enforcement or traffic-enforcement officers may issue citations.