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City of Cerritos Documents
(and Information)

Cerritos, pop. 57,000, is 12 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official monthly tabulations of citations actually issued.
Official tabulations, 2003 - 2004
Official tabulations, 2008 - Feb. 2009
Official tabulations, 2009
Official tabulations, Jan. 2010 (last month of Nestor data)
Official tabulations, 2010, Jan. to Aug. monthly totals
Official tabulations, 2010 - 2011, including annual totals
Official tabulations, 2012, Jan. - Feb.

( ) 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) Figures in red type are "raw" violations recorded by the cameras. The figures in black type are citations issued.
(5) No data has been requested.
(6) Overall total for 2009 is by highwayrobbery.net.
(7) This title bar is for the ATS system, which began in Feb. 2010.
(8) Feb. 2010 is first month of operation under ATS software.
(9) Intersection-by-intersection data for this month or year has not been posted in the table, but is available
at one of the links just below the table.
(10) Intersection-by-intersection data for this month or year has not been requested.

Cerritos Docs Set # 2
Delayed Signal Lamp

In early March 2005 a reader of this website sent me this photo he took of the signal at westbound South St. / Studebaker.

Evidently, the City had two different kinds of lamps in the signal, some LED's, and some incandescent bulbs. See Defect # 7 on the Home page for an explanation why some lamps take longer to come on. If you would like to see a sequence of photos taken at 1/16 second intervals, click on the photo above. (Big file - 584 kb)

Below is a copy of the photos from the reader's ticket, which was from November 2004.
In the first photo below, you can see that the lighted lamp on the long arm is in the upper, or red, position, while the lighted lamp on the vertical pole is in the middle, or yellow, position.

In the second photo from the ticket, you can see that the lighted lamp (on the pole) is now in the upper, or red, position.
Since the ticket said that the car crossed the limit line 0.25 second after the red (I call this the "Late Time"), we assume that the first photo on the ticket was taken after the power to the red lamps had been on for 0.25 second.
In March 2005 the sheriff agreed to dismiss the reader's ticket, but stated that the problem had been fixed.

If your ticket is at any Cerritos intersection and the Late Time is 0.25 or less, I recommend that you carefully examine the photos, to see if the the lights were correct.

If you are looking at your ticket and are having trouble telling whether the lights are red or yellow, have a look at FAQ # 20 on the Links page.

Cerritos Docs Set # 3
The Contract, Amendments, Guidelines

2002 Contract & 2003 Amendment
More of 2002 Contract
Guidelines (Policies and Procedures)
Transfer from Nestor to ATS

This list of contracts and amendments may not be up-to-date - there could be a contract or amendment later than the ones listed above.