COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH)-The Columbus city attorney says a contract for a red-light traffic camera program now the subject of a federal bribery investigation was properly awarded and later modified.

City Attorney Richard Pfeiffer says the process involving Phoenix-based vendor Redflex Traffic Systems complied with Columbus city law.

Pfeiffer released his findings and documents related to the program Wednesday at the request of Columbus Council President Andy Ginther, who says he’s assisting with the investigation but isn’t linked to any wrongdoing.

Ginther, a candidate for mayor in November, says the documents show the city’s checks-and-balances system for awarding the contract worked.

The city process included a committee evaluation of bids. The committee was chaired by former police Lt. Jeffrey Blackwell, now Chief of Police in Cincinnati.

The documents released by the City Attorney’s office show Blackwell initiated the red light camera effort in Columbus–but, he had the support of City Hall. In October of 2003 he told the committee the “mayor’s office is behind the initiatiative 100 percent…they want the committee to come up with a viable plan as quickly as possible.”

There were six companies that submitted bids that were evaluated and scored. Redflex came out on top.

In addition to Blackwell, the committee that unanimously voted to recommend Redflex included two city engineers and two public information officers – Amanda Ford, who was at Public Health at the time, and Sherry Mercurio, who was at the police department. Mercurio told NBC4 she has no recollection of the evaluation process and no recollection of voting for Redflex.

Ginther, who asked the city attorney to conduct the review said residents can have confidence that the city’s process was transparent. But Pfeiffer said he makes no judgments about the possibility of individual wrongdoing behind the scenes.

“We simply said, ‘here’s the process,'” Pfeiffer said. “Now if you want to look at the process and say, ‘ok, what pressure points might someone be put under undue influence?’ – that’s where you look and that’s not our role.”

Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman has also said he’s providing information to federal investigators but is not the focus of the probe.

Here are the documents released by the City Attorney’s Office:PDF: Red Light Memo To GintherPDF: Photo Red Light ChronologyPDF: Section IPDF: Section IIPDF: Section IIIPDF: Section IV