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Some of Los Alamitos' tickets tin possibly be ignored.  If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court'southward name and address on it, it is what I telephone call a "Snitch Ticket."  For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

If y'all have a ticket from Los Alamitos - even one you lot already take paid - be certain to read Docs Gear up # half-dozen below, as the Urban center may need to refund a number of tickets issued later Aug. i, 2015.

In 2020, Vote No on Donald Wagner

Do you live in Orangish Canton, in or nigh Anaheim, Corona del Mar, Costa Mesa, El Toro, Huntington Embankment, Irvine, Laguna, Lake Forest, Newport Beach, Orange, Tustin, or Villa Park?  Was Donald Wagner your State assemblymember or is he at present your county supervisor?
In 2014 Wagner was the sponsor of Associates Bill 2487 which would have taken away your right to a Trial de Novo.
In early on 2015, while he withal was in the Assembly, Wagner ran to bound over to the State Senate, only lost to John Moorlach.  Early the next year he started some other Senate run against fellow Republican Moorlach, but backed down later on encountering heavy criticism from their Party followed past the Political party'due south endorsement of his opponent.  Later in 2016, when he was but months abroad from being termed-out of the Assembly, he ran for mayor of the City of Irvine, and won.
And then in a 2019 special election to replace Canton Supervisor Todd Spitzer (who ran for DA and was elected), Wagner ran to fill up out the residual of Spitzer'south supervisorial term, and won past a narrow margin.


Donald Wagner

Wagner volition be on the election again in 2020, running for a full four year term.
Please don't reward him with your vote.

In 2022, Vote No on Sheila Kuehl

Do you live in LA County?  Was Zev Yaroslavsky your Canton Supervisor?  (He represented the Tertiary District, which includes the key and western San Fernando Valley, Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice, Beverly Hills, the City of West Hollywood, and part of Hollywood.)

Zev "termed out," and in the Nov. 2014 election Sheila Kuehl won the race to succeed him, by a narrow margin .

Sheila "Kuehl Cams" Kuehl, in 2007

During her career in the California Legislature, Kuehl made 3 attempts to laissez passer bills to allow the use of automatic speed enforcement (photo radar) in California.

A s an LA County Supervisor, she has a seat on the MTA/Metro lath and she will exist a vote to continue and expand Metro's huge (101 cameras, so far) red light camera system.
In 2016 she voted to put an additional LA County-wide sales tax, to go to Metro, on the Nov. 2016 ballot - and it passed.  (Run across Measure Grand on the Activity/Legis page, for more virtually that tax.)

Kuehl may be upwardly for re-ballot in 2022.

Be sure to read the "Countywide Information" for OC, which is Docs Ready # half-dozen on the Santa Ana Documents page.

Map by OC Register, 7-6-sixteen

Los Alamitos Docs Set # one
Ticket Counts

Full Violations, Notices Printed [4]

New 1-4-12, updated 1-xx-twenty

Cam #	KAAL-01	KAAL-03	KABL-01
	Katella WB@ Los Alamitos	Katella EB@ Los Alamitos	Katella WB@ Bloomfield [x]				[3]		Full Citations Issued as % of Events Re- corded	Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed [1] [4]	Total Citations Issued/ Left Plow Citations Per CVC 21455.five(i) Annual Reports [11]
Aug05	0 0	0 0	0 0							0 0
Sep05	267 103	321 235	258 168							846 506
Oct05	278 143	407 267	348 230							1033 640
Nov05	190 134	208 112	303 184							701 430
Dec05	264 216	150 94	276 183							690 493
2005 [2]										6207 (proj.)
Jan06	227 190	294 209	197 154							718 553
Feb06
Mar06										851 598
Apr06										683 450
May06
Jun06
Jul06	296 97	229 85	224 108							749 290
Aug06
Sep06										834 553
Oct06										854 544
Nov06
Dec06
2006 [two]										5976 (proj.)
Jan07	192 144	171 98	202 161							565 403
Feb07
Mar07										672 454
Apr07										581 377
May07
Jun07
Jul07	163 77	182 104	203 150							548 331
Aug07
Sep07										547 351
Oct07										16 7
Nov07
Dec07
2007 [ii]										4028 (proj.)
Jan08	197 123	143 83	164 136							504 342
Feb08
Mar08										570 397
Apr08										528 338
May08
Jun08
Jul08	160 88	104 35	110 lxx							374 193
Aug08
Sep08										449 254
Oct08										433 301
Nov08
Dec08
2008 [2]										3650 (proj.)
Jan09	141 109	85 49	102 71							328 229
Feb09										309 215
Mar09										445 273
Apr09										441 268
May09										404 271
Jun09										387 249
Jul09	164 76	85 33	97 67							346 176
Aug09										349 195
Sep09										337 190
Oct09										278 177
Nov09										336 257
Dec09										409 313
2009 [two]									64%	4369 2813
Jan10	138 109	78 51	92 74							308 234
Feb10										325 240
Mar10										395 278
Apr10										308 211
May10										351 197
Jun10										278 176
Jul10	182 125	87 40	74 47							343 212
Aug10										285 180
Sep10										450 296
Oct10										422 279
Nov10										370 279
Dec10										385 271
2010 [2]									68%	4220 2853
Jan11	101 73	89 55	114 88							304 216
Feb11	112 71	70 38	120 97							302 206
Mar11	171 109	63 28	113 52							347 189
Apr11	137 86	69 36	75 52							281 174
May11	167 109	70 42	ninety 66							327 217
Jun11	207 135	105 49	129 99							441 283
Jul11	172 95	103 41	130 96							405 232
Aug11	193 109	88 44	124 89							405 242
Sep11	228 163	110 44	142 106							480 313
Oct11	238 174	102 52	160 129							500 355
Nov11	200 166	89 55	128 79							417 300
Dec11	185 149	94 threescore	151 115							430 324
2011 [ii]	2111 1439	1052 544	1476 1068						66%	4639 3051
Jan12	132 102	78 50	155 128							365 280
Feb12	100 73	90 57	161 127							351 257
Mar12	279 178	128 59	187 116							594 353
Apr12	193 109	102 42	200 142							495 293
May12	265 189	170 81	202 148							637 418
Jun12	207 148	126 59	207 159							540 366
Jul12	225 124	141 72	246 179							612 375
Aug12	278 169	160 80	250 185							688 434
Sep12	288 191	140 78	254 184							682 453
Oct12	158 130	172 99	269 188							599 417
Nov12	199 149	171 115	203 155							573 419
Dec12	224 160	142 100	216 172							582 432
2012 [1]	2548 1722	1620 892	2550 1883						67%	6718 4497
Jan13	153 119	96 46	151 107							400 272
Feb13	141 99	162 64	171 129							474 292
Mar13	188 125	195 82	225 142							608 349
Apr13	210 109	161 101	289 210							660 420
May13	255 149	205 116	255 194							715 459
Jun13	218 116	225 117	271 199							714 432
Jul13	164 81	203 115	282 216							649 412
Aug13	197 105	211 98	265 183							673 386
Sep13	224 139	220 127	286 204							730 470
Oct13	284 204	180 113	226 168							690 485
Nov13	243 192	138 78	226 176							607 446
Dec13	281 159	160 69	188 113							629 341
2013 [1]	2558 1597	2156 1126	2835 2041						63%	7549 4764	4380 810
Jan14	316 227	148 87	183 138							647 452
Feb14	295 201	215 122	184 133							694 456
Mar14	351 245	259 172	212 155							822 572
Apr14	271 173	283 145	212 147							766 465
May14	325 201	336 156	239 158							900 515
Jun14	313 191	218 112	221 150							752 453
Jul14	275 137	255 147	193 138							723 422
Aug14	408 210	281 161	207 154							896 525
Sep14	437 215	278 124	136 47							851 386
Oct14	251 165	315 205	193 130							759 500
Nov14	291 159	222 152	198 154							711 465
Dec14	359 113	222 98	120 34							701 245
2014 [1]	3892 2237	3032 1681	2298 1538						59%	9222 5456	5011 2441
Jan15	299 196	216 117	211 151							726 464
Feb15	281 200	280 182	161 105							722 487
Mar15	405 189	186 111	189 118							780 418
Apr15	387 288	172 116	185 126							744 530
May15	319 198	172 107	183 114							674 419
Jun15	534 337	194 136	182 123							910 596
Jul15	422 269	179 103	245 149							846 521
Aug15 [ten]	260 166	187 101	57 41							504 308
Sep15 [10]	460 217	240 104	94 39							794 360
Oct15 [ten]	443 331	278 167	114 72							835 570
Nov15 [ten]	478 354	282 149	64 51							824 554
Dec15 [10]	457 359	227 167	181 129							865 655
2015 [2]	4745 3104	2613 1560	1866 1218						64%	9224 5882	5429 3484
Jan16 [ten]	334 249	222 148	149 106							705 503
Feb16 [x]	499 359	261 181	164 115							924 655
Mar16 [x]	421 290	236 164	191 122							848 576
Apr16 [x]	368 224	296 183	259 157							923 564
May16 [10]	362 231	313 180	246 150							921 561
Jun16 [10]	379 231	293 194	134 85							806 510
Jul16	333 119	264 120	84 38							681 277
Aug16	362 146	301 129	86 30							749 305
Sep16	448 317	370 241	58 29							876 587
Oct16	420 275	366 248	90 42							876 565
Nov16	346 209	335 199	108 49							789 457
Dec16	417 291	353 262	73 40							843 593
2016 [2]	4689 2941	3610 2249	1642 963						62%	9941 6153	5750 3790
Jan17	286 192	279 140	22 13							587 345
Feb17	333 180	225 106	39 20							597 306
Mar17	523 311	327 214	79 46							929 571
Apr17	334 216	307 174	134 73							775 463
May17	161 92	265 160	206 109							632 361
Jun17	214 96	472 279	187 81							873 456
Jul17	369 237	315 180	168 95							852 512
Aug17	437 235	259 175	102 63							798 473
Sep17	513 340	314 224	115 73							942 637
Oct17	452 354	290 234	127 94							869 682
Nov17	202 127	168 113	179 129							549 369
Dec17	229 132	107 67	175 116							511 315
2017 [1]	4053 2512	3328 2067	1533 912						62%	8914 5490	4240 2556
Jan18	185 126	169 128	163 122							517 376
Feb18	405 304	267 198	96 62							768 564
Mar18	492 345	346 243	107 78							945 666
Apr18	420 316	312 229	122 74							854 619
May18	466 333	352 254	135 80							953 667
Jun18	432 288	360 257	108 74							900 619
Jul18	412 246	357 244	108 73							877 563
Aug18	488 333	402 286	136 78							1026 697
Sep18	465 339	317 228	118 83							900 650
Oct18	616 387	266 145	138 78							1020 610
Nov18	535 399	267 182	140 93							942 674
Dec18	560 403	320 229	102 62							982 694
2018 [1]	5476 3820	3734 2623	1473 957						69%	10684 7400	5139 3256
Jan19	527 413	266 195	154 104							947 712
Feb19	508 415	290 228	123 83							921 726
Mar19	671 488	384 256	179 122							1234 866
Apr19	614 350	369 195	149 87							1132 632
May19	422 253	322 199	147 109							891 561
Jun19	343 243	337 215	151 93							831 551
Jul19	355 261	285 178	175 118							815 557
Aug19	469 366	375 264	170 104							1014 734
Sep19	432 245	351 171	184 91							967 507
Oct19	651 228	294 89	74 0							1019 317
Nov19	579 469	294 229	85 45							958 743
Dec19	582 472	335 253	131 78							1048 803
2019 [2] (proj.)	6153 4203	3902 2472	1722 1034						65%	11777 7709
Cam # [8]	KAAL-01	KAAL-03	KABL-01
	Katella WB@ Los Alamitos	Katella EB@ Los Alamitos	Katella WB@ Bloomfield [10]				[3]		Total Citations Issued equally % of Events Re- corded	Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed [1] [4]	Full Citations Issued/ Left Turn Citations Per CVC 21455.5(i) Annual Reports [xi]

This table made past highwayrobbery.net, using official reports provided by the City nether the California Public Records Act.

Official reports, 2005 - 2011
More than official reports, 2005 - 2011
Official reports, 2011 - 2012
Official reports, Winter 2012
Official reports, 2006 - 2013
Official reports, 2013 - 2014
Official reports, 2007 - 2014
Official reports, 2006 - 2015
Official reports, 2009 - 2015
Official reports, Late 2015
Official reports, 2009, 2010, 2016
Official reports, 2016 - 2017
Official reports, 2017 - 2018
Official reports, July 2018 and Annuals 2012 - 2014
Official reports,  2018 - 2019
Official reports, Spring 2019
Official reports, tardily 2019

[  ] indicates a footnote.
[1]  These totals are as provided by the City.
[2]  These annual totals, or annual projections, are by highwayrobbery.internet.  The projections are based upon only the data shown in the table above.
[3]  Un-used columns are to allow for later expansion of City's system.
[four]  Except where noted otherwise, the figures given in the table are for the unmarried calendar calendar month indicated.  Whatever figures in crimson type (or, if you are looking at this table in black and white, the upper figure when there are two or more figures in a cell) are what RedFlex calls Total Violations, or all incidents recorded by the cameras, and due to time limitations may take been posted here simply for selected months or locations.  If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months will be posted.  The figures in black type are what RedFlex calls Notices Printed, and correspond the sum of 18-carat citations issued (those filed with the court) plus any Nominations mailed (non filed with the court, a.g.a. Snitch Tickets).
[5]  Monthly data was requested on:
[6]  The camera enforcement is believed to be on traffic on the first-named street, but the direction of enforcement (due north, south, east, west, thru, left, right) is non yet bachelor.
[7]  Includes enforcement of posted "no turn on cherry-red" signs.
[8]  The title bar has been repeated solely for the convenience of the reader - there is no divergence betwixt it and the one at the top of the tabular array.
[9] The official written report for this month was generated ten days or less afterward the cease of the month, shows a number of violations "in progress," so the "Approved Violations" figure given in the official report may not reverberate the total number of tickets eventually issued. The citywide "Full" Notices Printed figure was adjusted as follows before being posted to the tabular array above:  The effigy was increased by the number of violations in progress times the % issuance seen the previous year..
[ten]  If you accept an Aug. 1, 2015 to mid-June 2016 ticket from the Katella/Bloomfield camera - even one yous already have paid - be sure to read Docs Set # 6 below, as the City may need to refund a number of tickets issued at that place.
[11]  From the annual reports required, starting time with 2013, by CVC 21455.5(i).  They become bachelor by the Fall of the post-obit year.

Los Alamitos Docs Set # 2
"Belatedly Fourth dimension" Graphs

Summer 2014 was the first time the City provided bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera, for its cameras .
These graphs track violations recorded, not tickets issued.
Where at that place is a large number of long Belatedly Fourth dimension violations in a curb lane, it is believed to point heavy ticketing on correct turns.
(The curb lane will be the lane with the highest lane number.)

The picture in a higher place is an example from some other city.

Bar graphs are available for more than fifty other cities - come across the list in the expanded version of Defect # 9.

Los Alamitos Docs Set # 3
The Contract:  Paying Besides Much But Can Escape

In July 2005 the City signed a contract with RedFlex.
The original contract included an illegal "toll neutrality" clause (see Defect # ten - B), whereby the metropolis did non have to pay RedFlex the full rent if fines were insufficient to embrace the cost.  On Nov. 4, 2007 the Orange County Annals published an article which revealed that in January 2007 an Orangish County Superior Court Commissioner dismissed a Los Alamitos ticket and "...issued an opinion opposing the agreements (the contract)."  After that court decision, the City revised its contract, eliminating cost neutrality but adding a clause allowing delayed payment for 90 days after new camera installations: "Customer may pay, in deficit, the Fixed Fee for the first ninety (90) days after the expiration of the Warning Catamenia to permit for collection by Customer of sufficient fines to pay the Fixed Fee."

2010 Contract

The city council canonical a new 5-year contract with RedFlex in September 2010.

The contract says:

Definitions.  ane.34  "Warning Menstruum" ways a catamenia later on the Installation Date of the outset intersection approach, wherein only warning notices shall exist issued, commencing inside 3 days subsequently the system has been installed.  (Emphasis added.) See Defect # 6.

The Urban center agreed to pay $4500 monthly rent for each camera.  With annual adjustments for the CPI, as of early on 2014 the rent was up to $4576 per camera and the City was paying the full amount, monthly (the 2010 contract did not include a "cost neutrality" clause - see Defect # ten - B).

The City agreed to pay WAY too much.  In March 2014 the City of Elk Grove, California approved a new contract which specified the following schedule of rents for their v RedFlex cameras.

Imaged from Exh. D of the Elk Grove Contract

Over the five years 2010 - 2015 Los Alamitos paid 59% besides much (compared to the Elk Grove price schedule), $305,568 extra.  To cover that actress rent, the Urban center needed to issue an extra 3056 tickets (assuming that the City's cut of the fine money averaged $100 for each ticket issued). The 2010 contract did not contain an escape clause (Termination for Convenience), something unremarkably found in other cities' contracts.

The contract was to expire in Sept. 2015, so the cameras were on the council agenda of Aug. 24, 2015.
Staff study and proposed new contract amendment

The staff report recommended a ii-twelvemonth extension, with no decrease in the monthly rent.

The proposed new contract subpoena added an escape clause, but the new clause included a provision requiring the City to pay a penalization of up to $30,000 in club to escape. The staff study said that the $30,000 was to re-pay RedFlex for the proposed upgrading of the software and changing the x-year-old cameras to "HD."  (Are th ree Hard disk drive cameras worth $30,000 plus $223,200 in actress rent? Should a City have to pay an extra fee or extra rent for routine upgrades to the equipment?)

On the Saturday before the meeting highwayrobbery.net submitted a letter questioning the amount of the monthly hire and the $30,000 penalty.

Early on the morn of the meeting SaferStreetsLA.org submitted an accident study.

On the forenoon of the meeting, RedFlex sent the City a Fact Sheet including some accident graphs and too a table showing that 76% of the tickets were going to visitors.  Although there was little time before the meeting, SaferStreetsLA submitted a response to the Fact Canvas.

On the public information table at the meeting there was a Plan Cost/Revenue Details canvas (author not indicated) showing that in Fiscal Twelvemonth 2014-2015 the Urban center had ticket income of almost triple what it spent to run the programme.

Escape Now Possible!

During the meeting a councilmember announced that RedFlex had only agreed to drop the $30,000 penalty from the Termination for Convenience (escape) clause. Signed Amendment with Revised Clause.  Without that punishment, the City will be able to abolish the contract at any fourth dimension, on xxx days detect, and walk away Scot Costless.

The council approved the new contract, unanimously, with word by only 1 councilmember, and without a reduction in the rent.

OC Annals Article (archived re-create)

Later on in the week the OC Register published an editorial  (archived copy) virtually the cameras in Los Alamitos and Garden Grove .

With the $4576 rent (per camera, per month), Los Alamitos would pay triple what it should, $221,472 extra over the two years 2015 - 2017, and would need to issue an actress 2215 tickets in society to encompass that extra rent (assuming that the City would go $150 from each paid ticket and that 2/3 of tickets are paid).

To see how much other cities pay, see FAQ # 17.

Four-Year Contract Extension - with Excessive Cost - Approved on July 31, 2017

The extension was originally on the July 17 agenda, simply that meeting was cancelled.  The new hearing date was July 31, and the vote was 4 - 1 to approve - Wilson nay.

The 2017 amendment reduced the hire from $4576 to $3200 per camera per month, which was however more than double the Elk Grove schedule (above) for cameras ten or more than years onetime, more than double what Del Mar pays (($1578) for its three RedFlex cameras, and 1/3 more than than Solana Beach pays ($2386) for its three RedFlex cameras.   Assuming that past hard bargaining Los Alamitos could have achieved  a target rent of $2400, the Metropolis'south consent to pay $3200 will cost $115,200 actress over the four years and the Urban center will need to issue an extra 1152 tickets in order to cover that extra rent.

Staff Report
Our Letter of the alphabet
Signed Contract

This list of contracts and/or amendments was up-to-engagement as of June 25, 2018.

Los Alamitos Docs Fix # four
Info on City's Website

There is a niggling program info on the police department'southward website .
The links to it are in the upper correct hand corner of the Traffic Agency page.

Los Alamitos Docs Set up # 5

Mickey Mouse Tickets - Mostly Left Turns

An official report showed that in 2016, 66% of the City's tickets were for left turns.

Los Alamitos Docs Set up # six

Possible Mass Refund in 2016

Los Alamitos may demand to refund an estimated 1000 tickets issued between Aug. 1, 2015 and mid-June 2016, as it appears the City missed the borderline to prepare longer yellows at one of its camera enforced intersections.

Background:  A new statewide dominion effective Aug. ane, 2015 changed the method for computing minimum yellow times.  The former rule used the posted speed limit to look up the applicable minimum yellow in the lookup table (see Defect # 2). That tabular array requires a yellow at least 3.9 seconds long for a speed of 40, 4.iii when information technology is 45, 4.seven when information technology is 50, and 5.0 when it is 55.  The new rule says that the minimum yellow shall exist determined by rounding the 85th Percentile Speed of traffic (plant in a city'southward current radar speed survey of the street) up to the next v mph increment, and then using that number to look up the applicable minimum yellow in the same lookup table.

 Los Alamitos'

2013 radar speed survey for Katella Avenue but east of Bloomfield reveals an 85th Percentile Speed of 40.  (The survey actually shows 39.9, but 85th Percentile Speeds are to exist reported as whole integers.)
Under the new rule, an 85th Percentile Speed of xl requires a xanthous of at least 3.9 seconds.  The Metropolis'due south 2006 traffic signal timing report shows that the yellow at Katella/Bloomfield was ready at 4.0 seconds, which would be just long enough except that a detailed examination of page 3 of the 2013 radar speed survey shows that the 85th Percentile Speed for just the westbound cars - those budgeted the photographic camera at Bloomfield and monitored past information technology - is 41 which, after the rounding upward required by the new rule, calls for a xanthous of at least 4.3 seconds.  (A footnote in the City's 2016 traffic signal timing report says:  "If opposing approaches are different, use the higher value for both directions.")

On June 29, 2016 the court dismissed 19 cases because of the City's too-curt yellow.

(For details about the case decided on June 29, see the Jonathan B. case in highwayrobbery.net'due south Library of cases.)   Will the City voluntarily dismiss and/or refund all of the (est.) grand Katella/Bloomfield tickets it issued after Aug. 1, 2015?   Or only some, or none?  In an OC Annals Article published July 6  (archived copy)  the Los Alamitos city attorney was quoted as saying, �I imagine they�ll exist offering to dismiss those.�
Further news coverage:
Nationwide Motoring Blog, 7-7-sixteen
OC Annals Editorial, 7-xiv-sixteen (archived copy)

Los Alamitos Docs Set # 7
Signal Timing Bank check

We received this 2017 document in which an outside consultant examined the Urban center'south signal timing.
We received this set up of documents regarding routine maintenance and repair of the signals, including timing.

Los Alamitos Docs Fix # 8
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