CLEVELAND, Ohio — Newburgh Heights — not Linndale — takes the crown for Cuyahoga County’s most lucrative traffic cameras — pulling in a staggering $4.3 million in fines within a single year, according to state records.
As Cleveland leaders flirt with bringing back traffic cameras, suburbs around them are cashing in — even under laws meant to strip the profit out of automated ticketing.
A handful of Cuyahoga County suburbs — Linndale, Newburgh Heights, Parma, Parma Heights, East Cleveland, Walton Hills and Gates Mill — collected anywhere from $800,000 to $4.3 million in a single year from their cameras. And because some put traffic cameras in school zones, municipalities can pocket the money and not lose state tax dollars…