Speed cameras on Interstate 380 in Cedar Rapids have stopped issuing tickets after a judge upheld a DOT order to move some and remove others.

City spokesperson Maria Johnson confirmed to KCRG-TV9 the cameras stopped ticketing owners of cars caught speeding by the cameras after the judge's ruling on April 25th. The city is appealing that ruling and asking a judge to allow the city to issue tickets while that appeal is argued. If a judge agrees, the city will again issue citations from those cameras, but not retroactively, meaning if you speed through a camera now, you will not get a citation from the cameras.

The four sets of cameras on Interstate 380 are by far the most active for the city, issuing the majority of tickets and bringing in the majority of revenue.

The Iowa DOT issued new rules regarding the cameras in 2014, that included requiring the cameras meet criteria for improving safety and be at least 1,000 feet from a speed limit change.

Under those rules, the DOT ordered Cedar Rapids to remove the sets of cameras drivers encounter while leaving downtown, at First Street West in the southbound lanes and at J Avenue NE in the northbound lanes, because they had no proven safety impact. It also ordered the city to move the two sets of cameras drivers encounter coming into downtown, at Diagonal Dr SW in the southbound lanes and at H Ave NE in the northbound lanes

Cedar Rapids, along with other Iowa cities with traffic cameras, sued the DOT, claiming the order infringed on the cities' right to govern themselves and had no proven impact on safety. A judge disagreed and said the DOT's right to manage Iowa's interstates supersedes a city's jurisdiction and that the DOT order was tied to improving safety.

From 2011 to the end of 2016, the city has issued 642,123 citations. Most of those tickets were from the J Avenue southbound camera which issued 298,150 tickets. The First Avenue West ramp camera issued the fewest at 6,993 citations.