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City of Santa Ana Documents
(and Information)

Santa Ana, pop. 308,000, is 28 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Be sure to read the "Countywide Information," which is Docs Set # 6, below.

Program Ended in June 2015

See Set # 4, below.

Some of Santa Ana's "tickets" can be ignored! If your ticket does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is a fake ticket, what I call a "Snitch Ticket." For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

Do you live in LA County? Was Zev Yaroslavsky your County Supervisor? (He represented 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.

Sheila Kuehl authored 3
speed camera bills

Sheila "Kuehl Cams" Kuehl, in 2007

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.

We need to watch Kuehl carefully, because as a Supervisor she will have a seat on the MTA/Metro board and she will be a vote to continue and expand their huge (101 cameras, so far) red light camera system.

Kuehl will be up for re-election in Nov. 2018 and Nov. 2022.

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 probably will be running for a Senate seat in 2016, was the sponsor of AB 2487, a 2014 bill which would have taken away your right to a Trial de Novo.

Asm. Donald Wagner

Please don't reward him with your vote.

Santa Ana Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Violations Recorded (some months) and Citations Issued [4]

New 10-21-04, updated 7-15-15

	01EU 01	01FA 01	01GR 01	17BI 01	17BO 01	17TU 01	BRED 01	BRSE 01	DYPU 01	EU01 01	FA01 01	FAED 01	HAMF 01	HAWA 01	HAWE 01	NEHA 01	SAMA 01	SERA 01	TU17 01	WAHA 01	WEHA 01
	1st WB @ Euc- lid Thru Right	1st EB @ Fair- view Thru Right Left	1st WB @ Grand Thru Right	17th EB @ Bris- tol Thru Right	17th WB @ Broad- way Thru Right	17th WB @ Tus- tin	Brook- hurst NB @ Edin- ger Left	Bris- tol SB @ Seg- er- strom	Dyer WB @ Pull- man	Euc- lid SB @ 1st Thru Right	Fair- view SB @ 1st Thru Right Left	Fair- view NB @ Edin- ger Left	Har- bor NB @ Mc- fad- den Thru	Har- bor NB @ War- ner Thru Right	Har- bor NB @ West- min- ster/ 17th Thru Right Left	New- hope SB @ Haz- ard	Santa Ana WB @ Main	Seg- er- strom WB @ Raitt	Tus- tin SB @ 17th	War- ner WB @ Har- bor Thru Right	West- min- ster/ 17th WB @ Har- bor Thru Right Left	Total Cites Issued as % of Re- corded	Total Re- corded/ Issued [1]	Avg. Issued Per Month	Multi- month Reports [12] [14]
May03
Jun03	?	?	?	?	?	?				?	?	?	?	?	?					?	?		?
Jul03	82 39	0	0	5	11	-	0	-	-	37	0	0	130	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	55%	402 222
Aug03	467 190	0	0	136	178	-	0	-	-	292	0	0	72	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	51%	1704 868
Sep03	384 201	0	0	107	170	-	0	-	-	247	0	0	88	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	48%	1704 813
Oct03	326 148	0	0	124	180	-	0	-	-	208	0	0	108	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	46%	1669 768
Nov03	224 137	0	175	129	157	-	0	-	-	157	0	0	67	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	52%	1581 822
Dec03	36 18	0	419	92	128	-	0	-	-	74	0	70	89	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	44%	2034 890
2003
Jan04	121 63	0	169	131	157	-	0	-	-	70	0	52	103	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	55%	1353 745
Feb04	131 95	0	237	121	137	-	0	-	-	77	0	33	108	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	61%	1320 808
Mar04	170 103	0	284	103	121	-	0	-	-	103	0	61	113	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	56%	1586 888
Apr04	184 106	89 44	280	96	107	-	0	-	-	110	65	50	61	0	0	-	-	-	-	0	0	59%	1550 919
May04	165 109	146 55	171	92	101	-	119	-	-	91	107	36	99	67		-	-	-	-	24 10	97	48%	2405 1154
Jun04	166 97	127 35	175	92	73	-	120	-	-	116	71	35	73	49		-	-	-	-	38 22	124	50%	2161 1082
Jul04	488 206	200 68	197	46	69	-	109	-	-	127	108	31	103	50	64	-	-	-	-	1134 231	107	40%	3815 1516
Aug04	454 226	324 152	207	84	88	-	97	-	-	115	96	42	72	68	89	-	-	-	-	2482 776	99	43%	5239 2271
Sep04	411 213	337 104	459 266	161 86	197 63	-	155 108	-	-	236 138	142 72	57 14	122 63	246 75	146 68	-	-	-	-	1984 569	181 83	40%	4834 1922
Oct04	319 174	280 158	446 339	183 120	199 74	-	130 98	-	-	250 161	153 68	47 8	260 91	217 52	181 82	-	-	-	-	896 363	198 102	50%	3759 1890
Nov04	154	179	265	121	88	-	52	-	-	86	55	11	70	17	31	-	-	-	-	147	84	54%	2509 1360
Dec04	223	150	284	118	156	-	15	-	-	120	78	20	86	17	74	-	-	-	-	86	75	67%	2257 1502
2003- 2004 (16 mos.) [5]	3822 1978	1235 482	4083 2628	3316 1454	3936 1748	-	743 568	-	-	3938 2045	897 531	1004 430	4472 2422	1113 314	464 227	-	-	-	-	5698 1697	1104 521	48%	35825 17045	1065
2004 [11]																							16057	1338
Jan05	199	161	258	141	124	-	149	-	-	110	77	21	83	38	92	-	-	-	-	280	98	74%	2470 1831
Feb05	176	93	245	98	128	-	189	-	-	104	69	23	81	88	101	-	-	-	-	230	90	62%	2777 1715
Mar05	171	74	275	73	87	-	158	-	-	106	65	46	81	87	83	-	-	-	-	271	111	56%	3005 1688
Apr05
May05
Jun05
Jul05	387 169	236 41	447 211		153 64	1421 284	327 146	0 0	0 0	367 129	63 24		111 69	233 81	185 57	0 0	0 0	386 201	224 78	641 201	246 99	34%	5427 1854
0ct5																							3339 1907
2005 [11]																							21588 (Proj.)	1799 (Proj.)
Jan06	294 140	168 71	345 223		163 91	456 196	180 81	264 123	424 240	247 106	106 66		67 39	125 51	139 64	0 0	0 0	187 126	221 68	639 227	106 44	47%	4131 1956
Apr06																							3530 2283
Jul06	331 168	179 62	364 209		264 123	521 189	246 146	343 157	255 118	235 80	105 55		79 40	126 56	162 88	506 287	0 0	271 125	267 97	602 180	201 79	47%	5057 2259
0ct06																							3111 1451
2006 [11]																							23847 (Proj.)	1987 (Proj.)
Jan07	227 132	132 51	238 127		148 86	278 109	105 42	257 159	158 114	153 72	33 18		58 32	75 19	107 49	182 77	0 0	169 83	183 57	0 0	46 10	49%	2549 1237
Apr07																							2293 1367
Jul07	281 157	183 41	243 134		117 64	262 97	159 98	178 106	179 114	185 73	46 27		66 30	109 69	92 41	143 51	322 53	207 72	174 75	372 127	27 11	43%	3345 1434
0ct07																							2572 1693
2007 (9 mos.) [7]	1678 1095	928 370	1782 1130	1038 625	1168 666	1366 759	1076 598	1838 1273	1580 987	830 522	271 135		388 191	633 358	666 312	1126 752	266 131	1304 697	979 572	1465 724	264 117	58%	20646 12014
2007 [13]																							26709 16740	1395
Jan08	171 94	149 67	226 129		145 92	242 110	95 52	377 208	185 135	146 67	39 14		40 14	128 60	67 25	170 74	66 31	138 79	192 74	304 117	37 11	50%	2917 1453
Apr08																							2231 1413
Jul08	158 84	127 17	181 74		127 66	228 70	109 68	359 211	225 149	123 58	37 17		249 93	124 48	41 20	212 77	69 20	149 82	151 60	313 63	26 8	43%	3008 1285
0ct08																							2695 1602
2008 [11]																							17259 (Proj.)	1438 (Proj.)
Jan09	130 61	141 61	160 94		62 38	225 107	63 42	162 71	154 111	107 49	48 18		268 68	119 43	61 22	104 40	49 20	98 63	177 65	293 107	25 14	45%	2440 1094
Apr09 [8]																							2687 1186
Jul09	100 32	151 54	174 81		81 40	272 104	145 91	249 145	257 150	108 30	45 21		291 68	96 39	105 55	127 39	61 15	112 65	214 69	322 107	32 10	41%	2942 1215
Oct09 [8]																							2923 1462
2009 [13]																							24103 14613	1218
Jan10	99 46	144 59	178 110		84 47	223 115	76 39	218 120	152 90	97 45	45 12		260 75	127 52	42 19	84 42	51 15	113 23	157 46	312 127	23 10	44%	2485 1092
Apr10 [8]																							2683 1319
Jul10	104 50	131 44	172 101		102 58	233 105	79 41	294 190	162 105	85 38	36 22		298 65	96 47	73 30	140 56	52 15	186 116	151 56	255 92	38 20	47%	2687 1251
Oct10 [8]																							2863 1374
2010 [11]																							15108 (Proj.)	1259 (Proj.)
Jan11	84 45	105 51	121 78		128 87	235 114	157 119	241 162	151 116	71 27	38 17		189 45	79 26	70 37	98 43	41 16	125 78	130 45	212 90	28 14	53%	2303 1210
Feb11 [8]																							2321 1180
Mar11 [8]																							2620 1346
Apr11	108 48	91 45	76 43	86 31	76 46	224 102	150 103	277 183	179 122	47 23	50 18	0 0	289 71	51 16	80 35	103 40	42 10	154 93	158 65	204 81	31 12	48%	2476 1187
May11 [8]																							2509 1180
Jun11 [8]																							2651 1292
Jul11	120 55	114 31	206 85		80 50	241 123	122 77	308 213	214 134	49 25	55 24		349 94	81 37	85 35	116 48	66 22	162 82	164 59	197 73	31 9	46%	2760 1276
Aug11 [8]																							2978 1426
Sep11 [8]																							2973 1370
Oct11	137 72	95 36	265 157	111 67	88 37	281 147	102 73	383 265	248 181	67 27	97 40	0 0	253 80	73 28	87 47	128 65	48 17	201 132	168 50	301 122	33 4	52%	3169 1647
Nov11 [8]																							2399 1407
Dec11 [8]																							2755 1469
2011 [13]																							24583 15489	1291
	01EU 01	01FA 01	01GR 01	17BI 01	17BO 01	17TU 01	BRED 01	BRSE 01	DYPU 01	EU01 01	FA01 01	FAED 01	HAMF 01	HAWA 01	HAWE 01	NEHA 01	SAMA 01	SERA 01	TU17 01	WAHA 01	WEHA 01
Jan12	119 68	106 47	274 155	100 27	99 59	243 150	110 80	319 208	279 221	83 32	80 25	0 0	45 32	66 29	31 17	131 62	35 15	197 109	145 51	240 88	30 14	55%	2732 1489
Feb12 [8]					229 126													503 178				51%	2942 1503
Mar12 [8]					196 97													549 153				43%	3336 1445
Apr12	93 37	122 67	278 133	0 0	215 93	232 99	145 95	329 249	284 212	64 29	89 34	0 0	155 77	98 53	107 45	129 67	33 15	551 183	141 52	227 98	37 21	50%	3329 1660
May12 [8]	133 44																	564 186				48%	3654 1753
Jun12 [8]	162 96																	604 222				46%	4217 1944
Jul12	192 105	111 43	340 160	0 0	209 102	302 187	159 115	329 259	327 188	63 36	107 43	0 0	158 70	67 43	95 44	151 69	43 20	960 310	161 69	236 64	45 26	48%	4055 1953
Aug12 [8]									392 211									647 233				49%	3751 1848
Sep12 [9]	189 105	110 52	354 194	0 0	201 130	232 147	175 119	384 262	354 262	70 38	66 36	0 0	121 59	100 62	115 58	138 68	58 31	527 220	129 55	251 76	53 16	55%	3627 1990
Oct12 [8]																							3880 2258
Nov12 [8]																							3411 1825
Dec12 [8]																							3491 1953
2012 [11]																							21261	1772
Jan13 [8]																							3540 1897
Feb13 [8]																							3441 2055
Mar13 [8]																							4955 2267
Apr13 [8]			320 181			318 167		370 276	382 243									755 224					4345 2156
May - Aug13 4 mos [8] [12]																							- 2169		14718 8674
Jun13																							- 2169
Jul13																							- 2169
Aug13																							- 2169
Sep13																							3379 1985
Oct13	211 138	132 77	305 221	137 87	169 111	248 190	222 147	278 191	424 324	96 55	64 41	- -	90 56	133 89	100 61	84 59	48 31	446 252	119 85	193 136	47 25		3546 2376
Nov13 [8]																							3129 1953
Dec13 [8]																							3048 1808
2013 [11]																							25173 (Proj.)	2098 (Proj.)
Jan14 [14]																							4729 2001		9715 5241
Feb14 [14]																							2139 1450
Mar14 [14]	194 108	109 42	173 115	191 128	0 0	251 148	219 142	195 168	360 256	57 40	44 17	0 0	136 78	85 46	169 89	69 57	46 21	252 167	67 47	168 100	62 21	63%	2847 1790
Apr14 [14]																							2189 1293
Mar14- Aug14 (6 mos.) [14]	- 94	- 40	- 107	- 98	- -	- 142	- 132	- 150	- 224	- 33	- 22	- -	- 61	- 51	- 69	- 48	- 22	- 146	- 37	- 84	- 20		- 1580		17607 9483
May14 [14]																							3812 1988
Jun14 [14]																							2574 1232
Jul14 [14]																							3812 1988
Aug14 [14]																							2373 1191
Sep14																							2998 1281
Oct14																							2340 798
Nov14	147 27	145 32	84 26	192 55	0 0	164 45	143 42	178 71	235 94	35 8	35 8	0 0	92 19	128 35	112 25	76 26	39 16	217 81	64 20	225 26	45 10		2356 666
Dec14						[15]													[15]				2317 664
2014 [11]																						47%	34486 16342	1361
Jan15																						24%	2063 496
Feb15																						19%	2241 426
Mar15																						10%	2433 236
Apr15																						14%	2721 390
May15																						44%	2514 1102
Jun15 (adjusted) [14]																						54%	2290 1241 [14]
[16]						C	L	O	S	E	D		J	U	N	E		1	8
2015 [11]
	01EU 01	01FA 01	01GR 01	17BI 01	17BO 01	17TU 01	BRED 01	BRSE 01	DYPU 01	EU01 01	FA01 01	FAED 01	HAMF 01	HAWA 01	HAWE 01	NEHA 01	SAMA 01	SERA 01	TU17 01	WAHA 01	WEHA 01
	1st WB @ Euc- lid Thru Right	1st EB @ Fair- view Thru Right Left	1st WB @ Grand Thru Right	17th EB @ Bris- tol Thru Right	17th WB @ Broad- way Thru Right	17th WB @ Tus- tin	Brook- hurst NB @ Edin- ger Left	Bris- tol SB @ Seg- er- strom	Dyer WB @ Pull- man	Euc- lid SB @ 1st Thru Right	Fair- view SB @ 1st Thru Right Left	Fair- view NB @ Edin- ger Left	Har- bor NB @ Mc- fad- den Thru	Har- bor NB @ War- ner Thru Right	Har- bor NB @ West- min- ster/ 17th Thru Right Left	New- hope SB @ Haz- ard	Santa Ana WB @ Main	Seg- er- strom WB @ Raitt	Tus- tin SB @ 17th	War- ner WB @ Har- bor Thru Right	West- min- ster/ 17th WB @ Har- bor Thru Right Left	Total Cites Issued as % of Re- corded	Total Re- corded/ Issued [1]	Avg. Issued Per Month	Multi- month Reports [12] [14]

Docs Set # 2
2008 - Two Appellate Cases Won!
2009 - Significant Trial Decision
2010 - Four More Appellate Cases Won!

The first appellant fought her ticket based upon a number of foundational objections, among
them that Vehicle Code Section 21455.5 says, in part: "Prior to issuing citations under this section,
a local jurisdiction utilizing an automated traffic enforcement system shall commence
a program to issue only warning notices for 30 days."
For more details, and case documents, see People v. Anna V.

The second appellant also fought his ticket on the warning ticket issue, and won at appeal.
See People v. Fischetti (2008).

In 2009 there was a trial decision on both the contract issue (Defect # 10-B) and the issue
of the required public announcement (30 days before the commencement of the program).
See People v. Lori A. & Murray

And four more in 2010! (Mustapha, Romero, Khaled, Park)

Docs Set # 3
Traffic School

Santa Ana, Nov. 24, 2004 Trial Session: No Traffic School After Trial
On Nov. 24 I attended the weekly Wednesday afternoon trial session in Div. C-46.
In the hallway before the trial session, the SAPD officers were willing to discuss
their ticket with any defendant who wished to do so. Among the things they told
the defendants was that the judge didn't give traffic school to those who argued
their cases and lost.
The session was presided over by Commissioner Duane Thomas Neary. One defendant,
before trying his case, asked Comm. Neary if he could still get traffic school
if he tried his case. The commissioner replied, "Not very likely. Unless you show me
some wonderful evidence during the trial, you're not going to be able to go to traffic school."
Needless to say, that defendant and all but one of the others grabbed
traffic school and did not try their cases.

(For highwayrobbery.net's opinion about traffic school, see the editorial on the Links page.)

Docs Set # 4
2002 Contract, Renewals, and June 2015 Termination

2002 Contract

In 2008 the city council extended their 2002 contract one year, to June 2009, at the same rent
they agreed to in 2002, $5370 per camera per month. The 2008 council action also allowed the police
chief to extend the contract one more year.

2008 Extension
2009 Extension

Had the Santa Ana council negotiated a $2900 rent like that in Garden Grove's 2007 contract,
it could have saved $2470 per camera per month, or $1,126,320 for the nineteen cameras
over the 24 months of the two contract extensions.

2010 Amendment (unsigned) and Staff Report
2010 Amendment (signed)

In the 2010 Amendment the City agreed to pay $3900 per month for up to twenty existing cameras, for five more years.
At that price the City could pay $1,080,000 too much over the five years (when compared with a $3000 target price). See FAQ # 17.

The contract contains no escape clause should a future city council wish to terminate the contract, or if the voters terminate the contract via initiative. A complete contract will include a formula by which the cost of such a Termination for Convenience is to be calculated. For an example of such a formula, see Section 6.2 in Victorville's original contract (available on the Victorville Documents page).

Cost Neutrality Retained in Contract, and Active

In the 2010 Amendment there is the prominent use of the term "Fixed Fee"(twice in the first two paragraphs of the Compensation section), so a reader could be left with the impression that cost neutrality has been eliminated and the Contract is now in full conformity with Subsection 21455.5(g) (as of 2013, Section 21455.5(h)). However, such conformity is not the case at all. Rather, a more careful reading of the Contract and amendments reveals that in spite of the clear meaning and intent of Subsection 21455.5(g)(1) (as of 2013, Subsection 21455.5 (h)(1)), the City and RedFlex have entered into an arrangement where RedFlex' income is dependent upon, and can fluctuate with, the amount of City's revenue from tickets. The methodology of that arrangement is expressed in Paragraph 26(a) of the 2002 Contract, "Miscellaneous Provisions," which states:

"… based on a bi-annual review process to ensure received revenue provides for sufficient cost recovery, the City shall have the option to renegotiate the Compensation... if the City determines it is unable to recover its costs..."

A 2013 public records request, which asked for copies of any bi-annual reviews done between 2001 and 2013, got this written answer:

"No documents responsive to your request."

Although the City did not provide documents about bi-annual reviews, March 2013 invoices show a $20,672 credit described as "Concession for Performance," and invoices from mid-2013 and late 2013 show more such credits. In Apr. 2014 highwayrobbery.net asked the City for:

"All correspondence, both internal and external, dated Jan. 1, 2010 to the present, regarding the justification for, the negotiation of, or the negotiation of the amount of the Concessions for Performance and other similar credits shown on Redflex invoices for services rendered after 2009 but otherwise without regard to their date or to how they are entitled. Examples of such credits being those shown on the Redflex invoices dated 4-30-10, 4-30-11, 4-30-12, 4-30-13, 5-31-13, 6-30-13, 7-31-13, 10-31-13, 11-30-13, 12-31-13."

The City's reply was:

"There are no documents responsive to your request."

Program Ended June 2015

At the Mar. 18, 2014 council meeting the council voted, unanimously, to let the program close on June 21, 2015, the expiration date of the contract.
Staff Report

And, at the Feb. 17, 2015 council meeting the council voted to receive and file (take no action on) a police memo pointing out the financial effect of ending the program.

Per a letter highwayrobbery.net received from police department staff in July 2015, the actual closing date was June 18.

(This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of 5-5-15.)

Docs Set # 5
Dec. 2009: City Blinks, Suspends Ticketing for 1-Month Warning Period

On Dec. 1, 2009 the OC Register published an article indicating that the City was suspending ticketing
for a month, to bring itself into compliance with the requirement for a 1-month warning period.
The article did not reveal whether tickets issued prior to the new warning period would be dismissed.
If you have a Santa Ana ticket, please be sure to contact the editor of this site.

Docs Set # 6
Countywide Information

The info in Set # 6 is applicable throughout Orange County. But only in Orange County.

Revenue Down

Court-provided revenue reports show that beginning in late 2011, red light ticket revenue was down, sharply, in most OC cities.
My Spreadsheet
Revenue in some cities was off by half. But this doesn't mean that half of those ticketed still were paying their tickets. It means that if 60% (a guess) were paying their tickets prior to the drop, after the drop it would be more like 30%.

Why was revenue down? It could be that OC motorists thought they were in LA County, where in June 2011 it was revealed that paying is optional (because the LA County Superior Court does not report delinquent tickets to the DMV).

Source documents:
OC Court Official Revenue Reports, 2006 - 2011
OC Court Official Revenue Reports, 2011
OC Court Official Revenue Reports, 2012 - 2016

Grand Jury Report

The 2004 - 2005 OC Grand Jury did a report on red light cameras. That report, and the cities' (required) responses, are on the Grand Jury's reports page.

If you wish to read grand jury reports from other counties, about their red light cameras, go to the Grand Jury entry on the Site Index.

Amnesty?

Do you have an OLD ticket that you've been meaning to pay? There is a statewide amnesty, starting Oct. 1, 2015. See the big box near the top of Section # 3, Handling Your Ticket, on the Your Ticket page.

Docs Set # 7
"Late Time" Graphs

The City has been asked for bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera.
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.

So far, the City has refused to provide the bar graphs. Santa Ana has claimed, at various times:

"The City does not have access to that report."

"Your request seeks information that is not maintained by the City."

Bar graphs have been received from more than fifty other cities - see the list in the expanded version of Defect # 9.

Docs Set # 8
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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