Des Moines has shut down more than a dozen traffic cameras after state officials denied the city operating permits for the controversial automated enforcement devices that have raised the ire of many drivers.

Most of Iowa’s traffic cameras that issue speeding tickets in permanent locations must be turned off after the Iowa Department of Transportation denied the vast majority of cities’ requests to operate them.

Two automated traffic enforcement cameras in Des Moines stopped operating at 4 p.m. Monday after the Iowa DOT declined permits under a new state law.