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City of West Hollywood Documents
(and Information)

West Hollywood, pop. 38,000, is 5 miles west of downtown Los Angeles.

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

West Hollywood Contacts
City Hall, 8300 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069
City website: http://www.weho.org
Call (323) 848-6400 for council meeting dates or for general information.
Call (323) 848-6460 to leave a message for the mayor.
Call (323) 848-6375 for information about the red light camera program.

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

Ticket counts, 2005 - Aug. 2011, monthly, by location (pdf)
Ticket counts, 2005 - Aug. 2011, monthly, by location (snp file - for number crunchers)
Ticket counts, 2011, monthly, by location (pdf)
Ticket counts, 2011, monthly, by location (snp)
Ticket counts, 2011, monthly, by location, and citywide, detailed (tif files):
Group 1, citywide and locations 3103 - 3113
Group 2, locations 3121 - 3132
Group 3, locations 3133 - 3151
Group 4, locations 3152 - 3164
Ticket counts, 1999 - 2011, monthly, citywide totals (pdf)
Ticket counts, 1999 - 2011, monthly, citywide totals (snp)
Performance Report: Total events, potential violations, tickets mailed, 1999 - Aug. 2011, monthly citywide totals (tif)
Performance Report: Total events, potential violations, tickets mailed, 1999 - Dec. 2011, monthly citywide totals (tif)

( ) indicates a footnote.
(1) Totals are as provided by the City.
(2) YTD = Year-to-date total.
(3) From Performance Reports, above.
(4) Monthly average for the year indicated.
(5) Except where noted otherwise, the figures given in the table are for the single calendar month indicated. Figures in red type are "raw" violations recorded by the cameras, and may have been posted only for selected months, due to time limitations. If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months will be posted. The figures in black type are citations issued.
(7) The extra title bars are solely for the convenience of the reader - there is no difference between them and the one at the top of the table. Also, the extra-wide vertical grid lines are for the convenience of the reader - they have no other purpose.

West Hollywood Docs Set # 2
Sample WeHo Ticket

During a visit to the courthouse, I talked to a lot of defendants and many of them showed me their tickets.
The first thing I noticed was that you can't read the numbers on the tickets that WeHo mails to defendants. The very critical tenths digit is a smaller font size, so no one could tell for sure how late they were after the red, or how long the yellow was. The tenths digits were not legible on any ticket I saw - and we looked at them in good sunlight, with as many as two pairs of reading glasses at once! A sample ticket posted by the West Hollywood sheriff illustrates the illegibility.

West Hollywood Docs Set # 3
Trial Transcript

I attended the June 19, 2003 trial session for West Hollywood tickets, and purchased a copy of the official tape of that session ($10.00).
The first part of the tape has now been transcribed, and is available here: WeHo Trial Transcript .
It is a good way to find out how an actual trial goes.

West Hollywood Docs Set # 4
WeHo's Business Rules (Guidelines?)

Vehicle Code Section 21455.5 requires that a city shall develop "uniform guidelines for screening and issuing violations." We have obtained a copy of WeHo's "Business Rules for the Red Light Camera System," which appears to that sort of document. However, 21455.5(d) says that the development of the guidelines may not be contracted out to the supplier of the cameras, and the language of WeHo's Business Rules is full of indications that it was written by the supplier. (See Defect # 10.)

West Hollywood Docs Set # 5
Late Times

The City provided Late Times, etcetera, for all 24 cameras.

Late Times, beginning of program to Oct. 2011, ranked by frequency:

Pdf file
Snp file (for number crunchers)

Late Times, by location:

Pdf file
Snp file (for number crunchers)

West Hollywood Docs Set # 6
The Contract

1999 Contract & RFP Memo
2000 Amendment

West Hollywood Docs Set # 7
More Coming

There may be some more West Hollywood information posted in the next few weeks. Mark your calendar to remind you to come back here and look!

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