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From the LA Times:

L.A. City Council delays exempting red-light camera contract from Arizona boycott

Consideration of a proposed exemption from Los Angeles’ boycott of Arizona to allow continuation of the city’s red light camera program has been postponed until Wednesday.

The City Council had been scheduled to consider a onetime, 10-month extension of a multimillion-dollar agreement with Scottsdale, Ariz.-based American Traffic Solutions, which operates enforcement cameras at 32 intersections.

Last month, the council and mayor agreed to ban most contracts with Arizona firms as a protest of a state law requiring police to check the immigration status of those they legally stop and suspect of being illegal immigrants.

The council also was scheduled to consider a plan to seek new bids for an expanded photo enforcement contract beginning next year. The current camera vendor and another top competitor for the new contract, Redflex Traffic Systems, both are based in Arizona.

The matters were continued a day because some key council members were not present.

In L.A., a boycott is only a boycott when it doesn’t cost the city millions of dollars of red-light-revenue.  The “key council members” will likely duck for cover until this blows over and they can quietly vote for the extension.

I don’t usually recommend reading the LA Times, but here’s their story if you want to read it.