Orlando's school zone speed cameras are scheduled to start $100 citations on Nov. 30, with warnings until then

The City of Orlando says citations from its speed cameras at 20 school locations begin Nov. 30, 2026. The penalty is $100 by mail, with no points on a Florida license. Until that date, the city says, owners are mailed warnings. The date is the city's schedule and is still ahead, and the city's pages gave it when read on November 8.

What changed

• Warnings now: the city switched the cameras on for a warning period on Oct. 5. A speeding vehicle's registered owner "will be mailed a warning notice".
• Citations next: the city says "Beginning on November 30, 2026, the warning period will end and violations will be issued." So Nov. 30 is the first day of citations by the city's wording, although FOX 35 wrote that the warning period "runs through Nov. 30".
• Who runs it: the City of Orlando, "in partnership with Verra Mobility", as part of its Vision Zero initiative.

Which limit, and when

• The threshold: the city's release says "more than 10 mph over the speed limit in effect". State law says "in excess of 10 miles per hour over the speed limit in force at the time of the violation."
• All through the school day: the city's page says "Cameras will be active throughout the school day". FOX 35 gives the span as 30 minutes before the school day, throughout it, and 30 minutes after it ends. News 13 wrote something narrower, "The cameras are active before and after school, with the timing based on each school’s bell schedule." The city's page and FOX 35 include the school day itself, so go by the city's wording.
• The limit changes with the time of day: the city says the "regularly posted speed limit is enforced during the school session", and the school zone's reduced limit is enforced "during arrival and dismissal times." So at midday a camera measures against the regular limit, and a driver can be caught then too.
• School days only: the cameras "do not issue violations on weekends, school holidays or other days when students are not in session."

Where

The city lists these 20 locations:

• Innovation Middle School - Storey Park Boulevard
• Laureate Park Elementary School - Laureate Boulevard
• Odyssey Middle School - Lee Vista Boulevard
• Vista Pointe Elementary School - Market Place Drive
• Vista Lakes Elementary School - South Chickasaw Trail
• Dover Shores Elementary School - Gaston Foster Road and FL-15 (near Inter Larado Place and Conway Road)
• Engelwood Elementary School - La Costa Drive
• Eagle's Nest Elementary School - MetroWest Boulevard
• Roberto Clemente Middle School - Roberto Clemente Road
• Audubon Park K-8 School - Corrine Drive
• Lake Silver Elementary School - North Rio Grande Avenue
• College Park Middle School - Maury Road
• Blankner K-8 School - South Mills Avenue
• Boone High School - South Mills Avenue
• Millenia Gardens Elementary School - Millenia Boulevard
• Lake Como K-8 School - East Gore Street and South Bumby Avenue
• Rock Lake Elementary School - North Tampa Avenue
• Sun Blaze Elementary School - Randal Park Boulevard
• MetroWest Elementary School - Lake Vilma Drive
• Westpointe Elementary School - Lake Vilma Drive

The city and News 13 count 20 locations or zones, while FOX 35 says "20 speed cameras"; this post read no count of the cameras themselves. The city says "Photo Enforced" signs are installed "at every entrance to a school zone where speed cameras are in operation".

What it means if you drive here

• Who gets it: the registered owner, and the city says "there is no need to capture an image of the driver." An owner who was not driving can transfer the violation to the driver.
• Not automatic: a certified Orlando Police Department officer "will review the images from the camera", and the owner "may be mailed a Notice of Violation". From Nov. 30, by the city's schedule, there is no warning stage first.
• The options: pay the $100 "with the 30-day due date", transfer the violation with a mailed Affidavit of Defense, or contest it at "a City of Orlando Administrative Hearing". State law gives 30 days to request a hearing, with no payment required first, and 30 days to file the affidavit.
• If you do nothing, the two published figures differ: the city says a Uniform Traffic Citation at "a higher fine amount of $204", and FOX 35 says the fine "increases to $206." The state law sections read for this post set the $100 and the citation by certified mail, and print neither figure.
• Where the $100 goes: $60 to the city, $20 to the state's General Revenue Fund, $12 to Orange County Schools, $5 to the county's crossing guard program and $3 to a state law enforcement training trust fund.

The dates do not add up to 45 days

• What the city says: a "45-day warning period", with enforcement on Nov. 30, "45 days after the warning period begins".
• What the dates say: Oct. 5 to Nov. 30 is 56 days, or eight weeks. No source read for this post explains the difference. The city's two pages, News 13 and FOX 35 all print Nov. 30, so that is the date to use.
• State law: a new program must run a public awareness campaign "at least 30 days before commencing enforcement", during which "only a warning may be issued".

How the plan has moved

• December 2024: WDBO reported that the city commission approved cameras "in 21 school zones". The city's pages now say 20 school locations.
• August 2026: WDBO wrote on Aug. 11 that "The warning period starts in September." Warnings started Oct. 5.

Not the same as Orange County's program

WDBO reports a program in 12 Orange County school zones, where the county partnered with the vendor RedSpeed Florida. WDBO says the cameras are "officially scheduled to go live on January 27, 2027", with a 30-day warning period starting that day. FOX 35's page prints it both ways: its first sentence says "scheduled to go live Jan. 27 after a 30-day warning period", and a clarification lower on the page says "though a specific date has not been announced." That first sentence puts the warning period before the go-live date, while the page's Brief and WDBO put it after.

Legal questions elsewhere in Florida

• Statewide: WDBO reported on Aug. 11 that "legal challenges have resulted in some tickets being thrown out and some programs being suspended".
• Osceola County: FOX 35 reported in November 2025 that the county "has temporarily paused" its cameras while officials review "whether the devices comply with state law". WDBO wrote in August that "Osceola’s cameras were cleared, but now a judge has asked if the devices inside the cameras are approved by the state." This post did not establish where Osceola stands today.
• Orlando: three web searches on Nov. 8 found no postponement of Nov. 30 and no suit naming Orlando's own program, and that is a few searches, not proof there is none.

What this rests on

• Every source read that credits the Nov. 30 date credits the city. FOX 35 says its story "uses information from the City of Orlando's web page". News 13 prints the date with no credit of its own, one sentence after crediting city staff for the warnings. ITPR's line, "As of November 5, 2026, the warning phase was still in effect based on the city’s stated dates", rests on the same dates.
• The rules rest on Florida statute as well as the city: the threshold, the warning period, the 30-day deadlines and the $100.
• Not checked for this post: whether Nov. 30 is a school day, whether warnings are reaching owners, each school's hours, a real Notice of Violation, the city's Ordinance 2024-25 beyond the page's mention of it, or the cameras and signs in person.