The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday is scheduled to consider — and appears likely to approve — an exception to the city's Arizona boycott allowing a 10-month extension of a multimillion-dollar agreement with red-light camera operator American Traffic Solutions, which is based Scottsdale.

The firm operates cameras at 32 city intersections that catch tens of thousands of red light violators each year. The council's Public Safety Committee says the exception is justified because red light cameras provide a "significant benefit to public safety."

The boycott exemption request comes as a new financial analysis of Los Angeles' red light camera program has found it is costing the city about $300,000 a year.

Last month, a lopsided majority of the council and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa suspended most travel and contracting with Arizona in protest of a new state law requiring police officers to determine the immigration status of people they lawfully stop and also suspect are in the country illegally. The law encourages racial profiling and violates constitutional rights, according to Los Angeles officials, a charge Arizona's governor and other backers of the law deny.