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City of South Gate Documents
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South Gate, pop. 94,000, is 8 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

Some of South Gate's tickets can be ignored. If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is what I call a "Fake Ticket." For more details, see the Fake 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.

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official monthly tabulations of citations actually issued.

Official tabulations, 2003 - 2004
Official tabulations, 2004 - 2005
Official tabulations, 2006
Official tabulations, 2007
Official tabulations, 2008 - 2009
Official tabulations, 2009 -2011
Official tabulations, 2010 - 2012

[ ] indicates a footnote.
[1] Totals and percentages 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, or for ease of reading.
[4] Figures in red type are "raw" violations recorded by the cameras, and have been posted only for selected months, due to time limitations. If there is sufficient public interest, highwayrobbery.net will post the remaining months. The figures in black type are citations issued.
[5] Data is for Sept. 27 to Oct. 1, 2003.
[6] The camera enforcement is on traffic on the first-named street, and the direction of enforcement given (north, south, east, west) is per a city list received in May 2009.
[7] All data has been received, but due to time constraints has not yet been posted here.
[8] Data has not been requested.
[9] Column headings are the same as at top of chart, and have been repeated for ease of reading.
[10] The first row of Aug04 data, and all earlier data, is from records received in 2004. The second row of Aug04 data is from records received in 2009.
[11] Data was requested on:
[12] Data for GASO-03 was not included in the report for May 2004.

South Gate Docs Set # 2
The Contracts

The City's original contract with RedFlex was signed on July 22, 2002, and its term was 5 years from the date the first camera began operation; it expired on Aug. 26, 2008.

From the old contract, here is Exhibit "D," the table giving the amount that the City was to pay RedFlex for each camera or "intersection approach" (each column in the table above is one camera), each month.
The City received from the court (approx.) $152 out of each fine paid. Using August 2004 as an example, the City would have owed RedFlex $60,440 (10 cameras at $4870 and two at $5870), so would have needed to have 398 motorists pay their fines in order to break even with RedFlex ($60,440 divided by $152).

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

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