{"id":301745,"date":"2026-06-09T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301745\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:46:10","slug":"florida-city-issues-44000-school-zone-speeding-tickets-in-less-than-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301745\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida city issues 44,000 school zone speeding tickets in less than one year"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Florida<\/a> city has issued more than 44,000 tickets to motorists speeding through its school zones in less than one year.<\/p>\n

The tickets were given for violations around Tallahassee schools from September 2025 to late May 2026, news outlet WCTV <\/a>reported, citing public records.<\/p>\n

Cameras are now used to enforce speed limits during the school day as part of the city\u2019s School Zone Speed Enforcement Program, created in a Florida house bill passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Ron DeSantis<\/a> in May 2023.<\/p>\n

Drivers going more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit are issued a \u201cNotice of Violation,\u201d including the date, time, location and photo evidence of the violation, according to city officials.<\/p>\n

There are 25 school zones in Tallahassee with cameras to catch any speeders.<\/p>\n

\"School<\/p>\n

School zones in a Florida city have issued more than 44,000 speeding tickets in just one year (Getty Images\/iStock)<\/p>\n

Ruediger Elementary School and Raa Middle School reportedly had the most tickets issued, with nearly 11,000 violations this school year.<\/p>\n

If a car is caught speeding, the registered owner will be mailed a $100 citation, per WCTV.<\/p>\n

City officials said a \u201cNotice of Violation\u201d will not affect a driver\u2019s insurance or their license, as it\u2019s a civil penalty.<\/p>\n

But if the driver does not do anything about the violation within 30 days of it being issued, they will get a Florida Uniform Traffic Citation.<\/p>\n

\"Drivers<\/p>\n

Drivers going more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit around Tallahassee schools were issued tickets using cameras (Getty Images\/iStock)<\/p>\n

Drivers who ignore a state traffic citation may have their driving privileges suspended, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n

Tallahassee isn\u2019t the only city looking to catch speeders around schools.<\/p>\n

Officials in Tampa, Florida, voted last week to approve speed detection cameras<\/a> in 18 school zones, FOX 13 Tampa Bay <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n

The vote came after a RedSpeed traffic study found significant speeding violations at 18 of the 31 school zones in Tampa, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

There was reportedly a daily average of 200 to more than 3,000 violations in each of the 18 school zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida city has issued more than 44,000 tickets to motorists speeding through its school zones in less…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15691,126644,28,30,29,2232,13730,120720,30192,31558,232],"class_list":["post-301745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-city-officials","tag-citys-school-zone-speed-enforcement-program","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-school-zones","tag-speed-limit","tag-speed-limits","tag-speeding-tickets","tag-speeding-violations","tag-tallahassee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}