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haven't already done so, please read the Bell Gardens section on
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City of Bell Gardens Documents (Program
Closed)
(and Information)
The Bell Gardens camera program ended in Mar. 2012.
It may be possible to completely
ignore a Bell Gardens ticket.
1. If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court's name
and address on it, it is a fake ticket, which I call a "Snitch Ticket."
For more
details about Snitch Tickets, see the Snitch Ticket section at the top
of the Your
Ticket page.
2. The LA
County Superior Court does not report ignored
tickets to the DMV. More info is in "Countywide
Information," which is Docs Set # 2 on the LA County Documents
page.
Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts
Total
Violations
Recorded (in red type), Notices
Printed
[4]
New 9-6-09
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FLEA-01 |
FLEA-03 |
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| Florence & Eastern [6] |
Florence & Eastern [6] |
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Total Notices Printed as % of Violations Recorded |
Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed [1] [4] |
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| Apr09 |
339 101 |
91 35 |
430 136 |
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| May09 |
374 177 |
193 111 |
567 288 |
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| Jun09 |
339 170 |
172 82 |
511 252 |
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| Jul09 |
353 111 |
186 84 |
539 195 |
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[ ] indicates a footnote.
[1] Totals are as provided by the City.
[2] YTD = Year-to-date total.
[3] Un-used columns are to allow for later expansion of City's system.
[4] Any figures in red 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 have been posted only 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 represent the sum of genuine citations issued (those filed with the court) plus any Nominations mailed (not filed with the court, a.k.a. Snitch Tickets).
[5] Data has been requested but has not yet been received.
[6] The camera enforcement is believed to be on traffic on the first-named street, but the direction of enforcement (north, south, east, west, thru, left, right) is not yet available.
Bell Gardens Docs Set
# 2
"Late Time" Graphs
The
City provided bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera, for its cameras.
These graphs track violations
recorded, not tickets issued.
Where there is a
large number of long Late Time violations in a curb lane,
it is believed to indicate heavy ticketing on right turns.
(The curb lane will be the lane with the highest lane number.)
The
picture above is an example from another city.
Bell Gardens Docs Set # 3
The Contracts
2008 Contract
The 2008 contract includes, in its Exhibit D, an illegal "cost neutrality" clause, whereby the city will not have to pay RedFlex the full rent if there aren't enough fines to cover the cost. See Subsection B of Defect # 10.
The contract possibly provides a monetary sanction against the city if city traffic engineers lengthen the yellows. Exhibit D of the contract reads:
"Cost neutrality is guaranteed except as follows: If the Customer [the City] fails to maintain the minimum yellow light change interval as established by the Institute of Transportation Engineers [ITE]."
The passage is open to two conflicting interpretations.
1. The City is required to maintain yellows that are at least as long as the length specified by the ITE - but can be longer.
2. The City is required to maintain the exact length specified by the ITE, and may not set yellows that are longer.
Section 11.14 of the contract penalizes the
City:
"...if more than 10 percent of the potential
violations expire due to the Police not completing their review...."
(See Subsection A of Defect # 9, about quotas.)
Section 11.14 and Exhibit D penalize the
City:
"...if the Customer chooses not to enforce right-hand
turns ...."
A 2011 staff report recommended the closing of the program.
This list of contracts and amendments may not be up-to-date - there could be a contract or amendment later than the one listed above.
More Coming
There may be some more information posted in the next few weeks. Mark your calendar to remind you to come back here and look!
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