Does Port St. Lucie Have Red Light Cameras?

Port St. Lucie's council approved a pilot program after city leaders cited traffic safety concerns and identified high-risk intersections for automated enforcement. The ordinance created the local legal framework needed to authorize traffic infraction detectors.

Local coverage of the vote reported that the first locations in the pilot included Cashmere Boulevard and St. Lucie West Boulevard, Tradition Parkway and Village Parkway, and Gatlin Boulevard and Savona Boulevard.

Police also identified a broader list of ten intersections as the city's highest-priority candidates for red light cameras, which shows the program was designed as a targeted rollout rather than a blanket installation everywhere at once.

Not necessarily at every proposed location. Approval of the ordinance was the key first step, but Florida law also requires public approval of vendor contracts used to install or operate the cameras.

The city's own ordinance materials note that vendor contracts must come back before the governing body, and the statute also requires annual reporting. That means the ordinance approval opened the door to the program, but it did not automatically mean every proposed intersection became active immediately.

As of March 12, 2026, the official record clearly shows city authorization of the pilot program. What it does not show as clearly is a mature, citywide, long-established network of live ticketing cameras.

Under Florida Statute 316.0083, a municipality can enforce red-light violations with traffic infraction detectors once it has passed the required ordinance. The statute says the initial notice must tell the owner about the available remedies and the $158 civil penalty.

Vehicle owners also have the right to review the photo or video evidence, request a hearing, or submit an affidavit if someone else had care or control of the vehicle.

Florida law includes an important limitation: a notice of violation or citation may not be issued for a red-light event if the driver was making a careful and prudent right turn on red at an intersection where right turns on red are permitted.

The headline is simple: Port St. Lucie is now a red-light-camera city in policy terms because the council approved the program. But because the approval happened only in late 2025, the better practical takeaway is that the system is new and still in rollout territory, not something that has been operating for years.

If you want the most current, intersection-by-intersection answer, the best places to check are the city's Council and Legistar records and its procurement portal, where implementation-related actions and contracts would surface publicly.

Yes, Port St. Lucie approved red light cameras on November 24, 2025.

But the fuller answer is that the city moved into a pilot-program phase, so whether a particular intersection is already actively issuing camera-based notices depends on rollout and implementation, not just the ordinance itself.