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Laguna Woods, pop. 20,000, is in Orange County, 12 miles southeast of Santa Ana.  It is mostly within the gates of Leisure World.

May 28, 2014:  Council voted not to extend the program another year.  See Set # 2, below.

It may be possible to completely ignore a Laguna Woods ticket !
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.

Do you live in LA County?  Is Zev Yaroslavsky your County Supervisor?  (Until now, he has been representing the Third District, which includes the central 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. 4, 2014 election Sheila Kuehl won the race to succeed him, by a narrow margin.

 

During her career in the California Legislature, Kuehl made three attempts to pass bills to allow the use of automated speed enforcement (photo radar) in California.

Do you live in Orange County, in or near Tustin, Orange, Lake Forest, Placentia or Yorba Linda?  Is Donald Wagner your State assemblymember?

Wagner, who is running for re-election on the Nov. 4, 2014 ballot, was the sponsor of AB 2487, a 2014 bill which would have taken away your right to a Trial de Novo.

Please don't reward him with your vote.

 

Be sure to read the "Countywide Information" for OC, which is Docs Set # 6 on the Santa Ana Documents page.

Laguna Woods Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Total Violations Recorded, Notices Printed [4]

New 12-3-05, updated 2-2-15

Cam #	ETMO 01	ETMO 03	MOET 01	MOGA 01	MOGA 03
	El Toro & Moulton [6]	El Toro & Moulton [6]	Moulton & El Toro [6]	Moulton & Gate 12 [6]	Moulton & Gate 12 [6]	[3]		Total Notices Printed as % of Violations Recorded	Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed [1] [4]
Sep05
Oct05	164 97	107 74	338 132	121 103	347 280				1077 686
Nov05	323 194	237 130	327 123	165 115	226 153				1278 715
Dec05	282 202	224 137	322 134	84 65	87 62				999 600
2005
Jan06	162 104	140 83	265 112	69 48	189 118				825 465
Feb06	[5]
Mar06	[5]
Apr06	[5]
May06	[5]
Jun06	[5]
Jul06	44 13	53 25	277 173	27 19	166 110				567 340
Aug06	[5]
Sep06	[5]
Oct06	[5]
Nov06	[5]
Dec06	[5]
2006
Jan07	47 20	30 11	162 111	16 9	155 124				410 275
Feb07	[5]
Mar07	[5]
Apr07	[5]
May07	[5]
Jun07	[5]
Jul07	46 22	16 8	229 149	17 14	121 78				429 271
Aug07	[5]
Sep07	[5]
Oct07	[5]
Nov07	[5]
Dec07	[5]
2007
Jan08	52 38	24 14	106 69	31 22	140 108				353 251
Feb08	[5]
Mar08	[5]
Apr08	[5]
May08	[5]
Jun08	[5]
Jul08	92 46	24 13	153 69	147 65	103 67				519 260
Aug08	[5]
Sep08	[5]
Oct08	[5]
Nov08	[5]
Dec08	[5]
2008
Jan09	33 22	40 10	178 98	10 7	115 96				376 233
Feb09	[5]
Mar09	[5]
Apr09	[5]
May09	[5]
Jun09	[5]
Jul09	26 9	44 23	280 156	14 11	94 69				458 268
Aug09	[5]
Sep09	[5]
Oct09	[5]
Nov09	[5]
Dec09	[5]
2009 [2]									3006 (proj.)
Jan10	39 26	40 27	227 139	18 14	120 103				444 309
Feb10	[5]
Mar10	[5]
Apr10	[5]
May10	[5]
Jun10	[5]
Jul10	33 15	32 12	379 180	45 20	86 64				575 291
Aug10	[5]
Sep10	80 13	38 7	164 29	37 11	81 33				400 93
Oct10	88 57	87 24	0 0	36 19	106 86				317 186
Nov10									364 191
Dec10									207 123
2010 [2]									2386 (proj.)
Jan11	162 67	113 37	253 78	12 5	133 85				673 272
Feb11									428 175
Mar11									351 191
Apr11	12 0	0 0	0 0	16 3	93 37				121 40
May11									108 57
Jun11	14 3	38 10	123 40	24 10	65 48				264 111
Jul11	80 27	291 47	16 3	14 9	94 66				495 152
Aug11	80 21	284 27	34 19	17 11	86 55				501 133
Sep11	100 30	244 47	94 32	11 8	78 59				527 176
Oct11	91 38	230 37	205 89	11 9	86 65				623 238
Nov11	79 30	73 17	173 83	17 13	73 52				415 195
Dec11	73 35	59 13	203 92	8 6	111 90				454 237
2011 [2]									1977
Jan12									469 243
Feb12									414 166
Mar12									483 144
Apr12									489 204
May12									513 263
Jun12									510 236
Jul12	87 42	68 30	215 91	14 12	66 48				450 223
Aug12									486 229
Sep12									462 222
Oct12									445 223
Nov12									395 177
Dec12									438 192
2012 [2]									2522
Jan13									419 159
Feb13									471 134
Mar13									760 135
Apr13									473 77
May13									459 44
Jun13									416 71
Jul13									452 109
Aug13									422 163
Sep13									442 152
Oct13	94 52	68 22	191 106	49 37	104 78				506 295
Nov13									378 200
Dec13									447 229
2013 [2]									1768
Jan14									447 183
Feb14									387 201
Mar14
Apr14
May14
Jun14	C	L	O	S	E	D
2014 [2]									1152 (proj.)
Cam #	ETMO 01	ETMO 03	MOET 01	MOGA 01	MOGA 03
	El Toro & Moulton [6]	El Toro & Moulton [6]	Moulton & El Toro [6]	Moulton & Gate 12 [6]	Moulton & Gate 12 [6]	[3]		Total Notices Printed as % of Violations Recorded	Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed [1] [4]

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official documents obtained under the California Public Records Act.

Official reports, 2005 - 2010
Official reports, 2010 - 2011
Official reports, 2012
Official reports, 2010 - 2013
Official reports, 2013 early
Official reports, 2013 late
Official reports, 2014 early

[  ] indicates a footnote.
[1]  Totals are as provided by the City.
[2]  Annual total, or annual projection, is by highwayrobbery.net.
[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.  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). 
Due to time limitations figures may have been posted to the table above only for selected months or locations.  If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months will be posted.  The official reports (links above) provide more figures.

[5]  Data has not been requested for this month.
[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.

The original contract signed in 2005 included an illegal "cost neutrality" clause, whereby the city did not have to pay RedFlex
 the full rent if there weren't enough fines to cover the cost.   See Subsection B. of Defect # 10.

In 2008 a Fullerton defendant got an appellate court decision saying that Fullerton's cost-neutral contract violated Section 21455.5(g) (as of 2013, 21455.5(h)) and that the trial court erred in admitting evidence from the camera.
In Jan. 2010 the Laguna Woods city council voted to remove the cost-neutral clause from their contract.

In June 2011 the city negotiated a lower per-camera rent ($4000 v. $5000 previously) and extended the contract six months.  The amended contract specifically excluded right turn enforcement at Gate 12.

In Dec. 2011 the city negotiated an even lower rent of $3000, extended the term to June 2013 with the right to terminate the contract on 45 days notice, penalty free, but removed the exclusion of right turn enforcement at Gate 12.

In May 2012 the city council ordered that the program be ended on July 1, 2012.  In response, RedFlex submitted an offer to reduce the rent by 50% (to $1500/camera), for nine months.  At the June 6 council meeting the city council agreed to an extension.

In April 2013 the City agreed to another extension, to June 30, 2014, with the rent reduced by 42%, resulting in a rent of $1750 per camera per month.

May 28, 2014:  No More Extensions - It's Over

At the council meeting of May 28, 2014 the council considered extending the program another year, but took no action to do so.  The staff report prepared for the meeting says (at page 2):

"Staff studied incidents over a 10-year period of time and found that the number of collisions related to signal violations at the two photo enforced intersections fluctuated slightly, but did not change in any significant manner after initiation of the red light photo enforcement program."

As of early July 2014 the Word on the Street was that the City has fired their contract prosecutor and will be dismissing all outstanding tickets.  So, if you have one, don't pay it right away - take an extension and wait to see what happens.