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Former Cleveland Director of Public Safety Martin Flask talks about the city's new Portable Camera Units at a press conference on Sept. 27, 2013.

(Cory Shaffer, Northeast Ohio Media Group)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Pause. Breathe. Possibly slow down.

There could be a traffic camera on high alert in your vicinity.

The city of Cleveland on Friday released the latest locations for its roving cameras. Beginning today and continuing through June 13, the 15 mobile units will be at:

13712 Kinsman Avenue

2940 Martin Luther King Drive

6411 St. Clair Avenue

2435 St. Clair Avenue

6517 Denison Avenue

1379 Spring Road

2100 Clark Avenue

11400 Block of Edgewater Drive

4100 Block of Superior

4300 Block of Payne

8500 Block of Hough

5300 Block of Lorain

4900 Block of Rocky River Drive

6800 Block of Franklin

17300 Block of Euclid Avenue

The city began using the portable cameras in September. The city also has stationary cameras at 49 locations. Drivers caught speeding past cameras at more than 10 mph over the designated speed limit are issued $100 fines, officials said.

A challenge to Cleveland's method for appealing traffic camera tickets has been filed at the Ohio Supreme Court. There has been no decision yet from the justices on whether they will take the case involving driver Sam Jodka of Columbus, who lived in Northeast Ohio in 2007 when he got a traffic camera ticket for speeding.

Jodka paid the fine and then filed a court challenge to the city's appeals system, saying it was unconstitutional because it uses a hearing officer instead of a judge.

In February, a three-judge panel of the Eighth District Court of Appeals in Cleveland ruled unanimously in favor of Jodka's argument that appeals of tickets from photo enforcement of speed and red light violations should take place in municipal court, not in front of an administrative clerk.

At the same time, the court said Jodka had no standing to recoup the fine he paid because he didn't go through the mandated appeals process.