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It’s already against the law for state police to have ticket quotas. Now lawmakers want to prohibit local police and sheriffs from requiring a set number of arrests. State Senator Rob Bradley filed the legislation after two infamous towns in north Florida abolished their police departments when officers came forward and told of being required to run speed traps. Bradley says the ticket quotas are most prominent among smaller jurisdictions.

“You don’t and officer feeling that he or she needs to pull people over and generate speeding tickets in order to generate the revenue to keep their jobs. That’s a questionable motivation.”

The legislation requires cities and counties to report to the state and money collected from tickets that is used to fund law enforcement activities.