Kentucky is rolling out a new way to enforce speed limits starting this summer.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will begin placing cameras and highway work zones.

The cameras are part of new legislation passed by the Kentucky General Assembly earlier this year.

House Bill 664 is known as the Jared Lee Helton Act and honor of a magoffin County man who was killed while working in a highway construction zone.

Officials recently discussed the need for the program and explain more about how it will work.

The number one goal of our cabinet is safety, public safety, employee safety.

We believe that those two go hand in glove when we care for our employees, when we are making sure that we're doing all we can for our employee safety.

We know that we're going to do a better job of public safety as well the traveling public safety.

And for those reasons, we believe this is such an important initiative.

These trailers are equipped with radar and photographic equipment that will document speed violators.

That data is then transmitted to an officer that's working in the work zone.

So they'll be able to see that in near real time, and then they will be able to take the necessary enforcement action to slow the motoring public down, to ensure the safety of persons that are both working and driving in the work zone areas.

Officials say work zones with cameras will have warning signs to alert drivers that they're being used.

Drivers caught speeding will be issued a $500 fine.