If you've received a ticket in the mail thanks to a red light camera, listen up.
A Dallas attorney found – what appears to be – a loophole in the law that could void the 2000-plus tickets given out by the City of Austin.
According to state law, a company must have a private investigator's license if the evidence they collect (in this case the photos) is used in court.
The attorney in Dallas found that the largest traffic enforcement camera operator in Texas did not have the private investigator license.
News 8 did a search of DPS records and found that the company Austin uses does not appear to have the appropriate license either.
The City of Austin's Reyne Telles said as of now, this situation does not involve the city.
"We're certainly keeping our pulse on the developing situation, but it is in the very early stages as far as litigation is concerned," he said. "At this point, it does not involve the city and does not involve anyone who has received a citation from the City of Austin."
Currently, the city operates five red light cameras with four more on the way. The intersections are:
-- Northbound MoPac Expressway at Howard Lane/Wells Branch Parkway
-- Southbound MoPac Expressway at Howard Lane/Wells Branch Parkway
-- East frontage of Lamar Boulevard at the south frontage of Ben White Boulevard (eastbound)
-- MoPac southbound service road at eastbound U.S. Highway 290
-- Northbound I-35 service road at 11th Street
-- Southbound I-35 service road at 15th Street
-- Riverside Drive at Pleasant Valley Road
-- West frontage of Lamar Boulevard at Ben White Boulevard (or Capital of Texas Highway) westbound/northbound
-- Southbound I-35 service road at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.