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City of Lynwood Documents
(and Information)

Lynwood, pop. 66,000, is 5 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

Many RedFlex towns send out "Snitch Tickets," which you can ignore. A Snitch Ticket will not have the Superior Court's name and address on it. For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

Be sure to read the "Countywide Information," which is Docs Set # 2 on the LA County Documents page.

Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

2008 - 2009 Counts

In April 2009 the City sent me some tables showing the money it received from the court, and the disposition of the tickets. An intersection-by-intersection breakdown has been requested.

2004, 2009 Counts

Total Violations Recorded, Notices Printed, Citations Issued [4]

New 11-30-05, updated 5-7-12

Cam #	IMAT-01	IMLB-01
	Imperial WB @ Atlantic	Imperial @ Long Beach	[3]	Total Notices Printed as % of Violations Recorded	Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed/ Citations Issued per Invoices [1] [4]
Nov04
Dec04					39
2004
Jan05					45
Feb05					47
Mar05					68
Apr05					39
May05					42
Jun05					16
Jul05					35
Aug05					40
Sep05
Oct05
Nov05
Dec05
2005
Jan08
Feb08
Mar08
Apr08
May08
Jun08 & Jul08	731 200	118 52			849 252
Jul08
Aug08
Sep08
Oct08
Nov08
Dec08
2008
Jan09	226 46	161 43			387 89
Feb09	301 79	119 41			420 120
Mar09	349 83	178 45			527 128
Apr09	393 52	86 4			479 56
May09	372 33	126 36			498 69
Jun09	266 44	122 33			388 77
Jul09	345 109	57 16			402 125
Aug09	385 144	21 0			406 144
Sep09
Oct09	312 173	123 61			435 234
Nov09
Dec09
2009
Jan10	299 158	89 25			388 183
Feb10
Mar10
Apr10	273 115	73 26			346 141
May10
Jun10
Jul10	274 114	86 42			360 156
Aug10
Sep10
Oct10	124 2	102 39			226 41
Nov10
Dec10
2010
Jan11	219 85	105 55			324 140
Feb11
Mar11
Apr11	11 5	2 2			13 7
May11
Jun11
Jul11	294 35	117 25			411 60
Aug11	545 90	147 20			601 110
Sep11	417 190	179 102			596 292
Oct11	466 203	207 87			673 290
Nov11	386 111	162 42			548 153
Dec11	335 155	197 68			532 223
2011
Jan12	336 157	160 58			496 215
Feb12	279 141	217 124			496 265
Mar12	341 146	187 104			528 250
Apr12
May12
Jun12
Jul12
Aug12
Sep12
Oct12
Nov12
Dec12
2012
Jan13
Feb13
Mar13
Apr13
May13
Jun13
Jul13
Aug13
Sep13
Oct13
Nov13
Dec13
2013

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

2010 - 2012 official documents
2009 - 2012 official documents (additional months)

[ ] 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). Figures in blue type (or, if you are looking at this table in black and white, in italic type) are total Cites Issued (filed with the court), per RedFlex's monthly invoices to the City.
[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.

Lynwood Docs Set # 2
"Late Time" Graphs

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

Lynwood signed a pay-per-ticket contract with RedFlex on Dec. 18, 2003, just before the effective date of CVC 21455.5(g). The contract provided:
"RedFlex will be paid $89 for the first three Citations issued on a single day from a particular Designated Intersection. RedFlex will be paid $80 for the fourth and subsequent Citations issued on a single day from a particular Designated Intersection."

Then, on Dec. 18, 2008 the City signed a new contract including 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 new contract penalizes the City should it choose not to enforce right-hand turn violations.

The new contract also says: "Definitions. 'Warning Period' means a period after the Installation Date of the first intersection approach..." (Emphasis added.) See Defect # 6.

Had the council negotiated a $2900 fee like that in the 2007 contract of the City of Garden Grove, it could have saved $2100 per camera per month, or $252,000 for the two cameras over the 60 months of the contract.

Or, had the council negotiated a $2225 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Solana Beach, it could have saved $333,000.

Or, had the council negotiated a $2500 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Davis, it could have saved $300,000.

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.