{"id":354555,"date":"2026-07-28T03:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354555\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T03:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:48:25","slug":"sanibel-school-zone-cameras-wrongly-ticket-1700-drivers-for-speeding-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354555\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanibel school zone cameras wrongly ticket 1,700 drivers for speeding | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANIBEL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/sanibel-cracks-down-on-school-zone-speeders-with-new-camera-system\/article_9215643f-1828-5832-b6f1-7c0def0739e2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Speed detection cameras installed in February 2025<\/a> to crack down on speeding in Sanibel Island school zones have led to more than 1,700 incorrect citations being issued to drivers who were not speeding.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras were initially installed to monitor school zones, but concerns arose in October 2025 that their placement did not comply with Florida Department of Transportation standards.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras were adjusted to meet those standards, but problems persisted.<\/p>\n<p>In June, numerous people complained about the accuracy of a camera located on Sanibel Captiva Road near the Sanibel School.<\/p>\n<p>The Sanibel Police Department conducted two speed tests on the camera and found the readings were wrong due to the camera&#8217;s placement behind a palm tree.<\/p>\n<p>To fix the issue, the company that operates the cameras added an extended arm to improve the camera&#8217;s positioning.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,300 of the incorrect citations had already been paid by drivers. The camera company will refund all paid citations.<\/p>\n<p>The Sanibel Police Department will dismiss the unpaid ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANIBEL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Speed detection cameras installed in February 2025 to crack down on speeding in Sanibel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,1126,15471,144794,4186,118116],"class_list":["post-354555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-florida-department-of-transportation","tag-sanibel","tag-sanibel-school","tag-school-zone","tag-traffic-ticket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354555","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=354555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}