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.

Under state law, for every dollar $1 earned from camera fines,

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