Ocoee could become the second city in Central Florida to change its use of red-light cameras.

A week after Clermont City Council decided to drop its red-light camera program, Ocoee commissioners may tell police to stop using the traffic devices to ticket drivers who don't stop at red lights before turning right.

Commissioners were narrowly in favor of that change last month, voting 3-2 to discuss the issue with Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions, the camera vendor for Ocoee, Orlando and Clermont and other Florida communities.

A formal vote comes Tuesday night.

But the city would be making a mistake to exclude all right-turn violations, said police Lt. Brad Dreasher, who heads the Ocoee Intersection Safety Program.

"People who don't even slow down that's who's getting tickets from us," Dreasher said. "That's a safety issue."

From Oct. 1 through Aug. 21, four of every five tickets generated by red-light cameras in Ocoee were issued to drivers who did not stop while making a right turn.

ATS's cameras snapped photos of 85,100 red-light runners in Ocoee over that span, including 67,391 who turned right without stopping.

Most violations were nixed by police, who review camera company's video and have the final say on issuing a ticket.

Police tossed out 70,254 of those cases, including 55,394 instances in which the driver had failed to stop at a traffic signal before turning right.

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Ocoee may stop ticketing drivers for red-light turns