os Angeles' red-light camera program was temporarily exempted Wednesday from the city's contracting boycott of Arizona prompted by that state's new immigration enforcement policy.

City Council members, noting that the Los Angeles Police Department backs the photo enforcement program as a public safety matter, voted 13 to 0 to extend a multimillion-dollar agreement with Scottsdale-based American Traffic Solutions.

The existing contract with the company, which operates cameras at 32 intersections, would have expired next week, shutting down a traffic program that catches tens of thousands of red-light violators a year.