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City of Laguna Woods Documents
(and Information)

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

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

Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Total Violations Recorded, Notices Printed [4]

New 12-3-05, updated 1-24-12

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
Mar06
Apr06
May06
Jun06
Jul06	44 13	53 25	277 173	27 19	166 110			567 340
Aug06
Sep06
Oct06
Nov06
Dec06
2006
Jan07	47 20	30 11	162 111	16 9	155 124			410 275
Feb07
Mar07
Apr07
May07
Jun07
Jul07	46 22	16 8	229 149	17 14	121 78			429 271
Aug07
Sep07
Oct07
Nov07
Dec07
2007
Jan08	52 38	24 14	106 69	31 22	140 108			353 251
Feb08
Mar08
Apr08
May08
Jun08
Jul08	92 46	24 13	153 69	147 65	103 67			519 260
Aug08
Sep08
Oct08
Nov08
Dec08
2008
Jan09	33 22	40 10	178 98	10 7	115 96			376 233
Feb09
Mar09
Apr09
May09
Jun09
Jul09	26 9	44 23	280 156	14 11	94 69			458 268
Aug09
Sep09
Oct09
Nov09
Dec09
2009
Jan10	39 26	40 27	227 139	18 14	120 103			444 309
Feb10
Mar10
Apr10
May10
Jun10
Jul10	33 15	32 12	379 180	45 20	86 64			575 291
Aug10
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
Dec10
2010
Jan11	162 67	113 37	253 78	12 5	133 85			673 272
Feb11
Mar11
Apr11	12 0	0 0	0 0	16 3	93 37			121 40
May11
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
Jan12
Feb12
Mar12
Apr12
May12
Jun12
Jul12
Aug12
Sep12
Oct12
Nov12
Dec12
2012
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

[ ] 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).

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) 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.

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.

The City provided bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera, for all of 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.

ETMO 01 2006
ETMO 01 2010

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

I was not able to find red light camera program info on either the OC Sheriff's or the City's website.