Culver
City Documents
(and Information)
Culver
City, pop. 40,000, is in west LA, 3 miles
north of LAX.
It may be possible to completely ignore a Culver
City ticket!
1. The Los Angeles County Superior Court
does not report ignored red light camera tickets to the
DMV. More info is in "Countywide Information,"
which is Docs Set # 2 on the LA
County Documents page.
2. If your "ticket" does not have the Superior
Court's name and address on it, it is a fake ticket
(also called a Snitch Ticket) mailed out by the police
department in an attempt to bluff you into identifying
the driver shown in the photo. For more details
about Snitch Tickets, see the Snitch Ticket section at
the top of the Your Ticket page.
And if you don't want to ignore the
ticket, or cannot, see Set # 16, below.
Watch
Out - New Cameras and Tickets Surges in Early 2017
See Sets # 7 and 13, below.
There is a LOT more info, below, about
the red light cameras in Culver City.
But first, these important political announcements ...
Shopping in Culver City could cost you $500 for the
privilege.
In 2022, Vote No on Sheila Kuehl
Was Zev Yaroslavsky your County
Supervisor? (Until Nov. 2014, 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.)
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.
As an LA County Supervisor,
she has a seat on the MTA/Metro board and she will be
a vote to continue and expand Metro's huge (101
cameras, so far) red light camera system.
She recently voted to put an additional LA County-wide
sales tax, to go to Metro, on the Nov. 2016 ballot -
and it passed. (See Measure M on
the Action/Legis page, for more about that tax.)
Kuehl may be up for re-election in Nov. 2022.
Culver City Contacts
City Hall, 9770 Culver Boulevard, Culver
City, CA 90232
(1/2 mile east of the courthouse - plentiful free
well-lighted underground parking, entrance ramp on
Duquesne)
Councilmembers' individual email addresses are:
jim.clarke@culvercity.org,
jeff.cooper@culvercity.org,
goran.eriksson@culvercity.org,
meghan.sahli-wells@culvercity.org,
thomas.small@culvercity.org,
or you can send an email to city.clerk@culvercity.org,
for distribution to the councilmembers.
Council meetings: Most Mondays, 7 p.m. Opportunity for
public to speak: Promptly at beginning of council
meeting. Call (310) 253-6000 to confirm council meeting
date or to leave a message for mayor or councilmembers.
Culver City Chamber of Commerce
Location: 1st Level of Fox Hills/Westfield Mall,
near Best Buy
Culver City, CA 90230
http://www.culvercitychamber.com
barbara@culvercitychamber.com
(310) 287-3850
Local
Attractions Near Culver City's Red Light
Cameras
Restaurants:
A-Frame, Akasha, Bucato, East Borough, N/Naka
Shopping:
Costco (on Washington near Marina del Rey),
Fox Hills Mall/Westfield (Macy's, Nordstrom
Rack)
Hotels:
Courtyard by Marriott, Culver Hotel, Double
Tree by Hilton, Four Points by Sheraton,
Ramada, Rodeway Inn, Travelodge
Also
see the map, in Set # 5, below.
Table
of
Contents
Culver City
Docs Set # 1
Public Records
Request for Camera Stats - Reply of 10-31-02
Here are 12 pages provided by the City
in response to my Public Records Act request for
information (1) regarding the reasons (accident rates,
etc.) for installation of the cameras at the
intersections chosen, and (2) the
intersection-by-intersection breakdown of revenue,
citations issued, the disposition of those citations,
and citations not issued. For more details about
citations issued, see also Set # 13, below.
Culver City
Docs Set # 2
City's Revenue
and Expenditure
At an October 2002 City Council meeting I presented a
graph showing that, the previous fiscal year, red
light camera program expenditure ran 42% higher than
budgeted, and revenue flattened out.
Updated 3-15-03: My
projection, using figures from the first eight months
of the current fiscal year, indicates that the
profit flowing from the program to the City's General
Fund could be 57% less than expected.
This section also includes monthly
revenue, 2010 to present.
Culver
City Docs Set # 3
Request to Court
to Allow Public to See TV Display
Here is the correspondence, to date, on my request to
re-orient the courtroom TV so that the public may
again view the ticket photos.
Culver
City Docs Set # 4
Signal Timing: Was Culver
City's "Mistake" an "Inadvertent" One?
The evidence shows that they were aware of the new law
prescribing minimum yellow times(VC 21455.7, effective
Jan. 1, 2002), but failed to bring their cameras into
compliance with it.
This set also includes
the signal timing charts as of late 2015.
Culver City
Docs Set # 5
Map of Culver City's
Camera Locations
&
A Possible Explanation Why Just
a Few Locations Produce Most of the Revenue
The map shows the location of many of the cameras that
are presently operating.
For signal timing charts as of 2015,
see Set # 4, above.
Culver
City Docs Set # 6
Transcript
of
Culver
City Trial
The transcript is provided to show the standard
testimony that occurs during Culver City red light
camera trials. It is also an example of the
Settled Statement that is written as part of the appeals
process.
See also the Culver City Chronology, Set # 8, below.
Click on: Culver
City Docs Set # 7
Culver City's Contract
with RedFlex
Watch Out: The New Contract
Continuously Expands Enforcement
The new contract signed in
Aug. 2014 provides for the addition of right and/or
left turn enforcement capability to many of the
existing cameras.
(To see the contract, and the amendment, click on the
Docs Set # 7 link above; also see Defect # 10 - B).
On Dec.
12, 2016 the Council voted to add even more cameras and
intersections.
Set # 8
The Culver
City Chronology
Notes about actual court trials:
Part 1 -
Sept. 26, 2002 to Nov. 7, 2002
Part 2 - Nov.
14, 2002 to Sept. 4, 2003
Part 3 - Sept.
11, 2003 to Present
There is information about driver's photos, in the
notes from Nov. 7, 2002, and Jan. 9, 23 and 30, 2003,
and May 30, 2003.
See also the trial transcript, in Set #
6, above.
Culver
City Docs Set # 9
Culver City's
"Certificate of Mailing"
This is the official-looking "Certificate of Mailing"
form Culver City formerly used. See Defect # 8 on
the Home Page for more details.
Culver City Docs
Set # 10
Council
Fiddles While Police Department Burns
This website
, containing video of an incident of negligence by the
Culver City police, suggests that the department lost
sight of its mission, public safety, and that the city
council failed to take action to bring it back on
course.
Culver
City Docs Set # 11
Rumors about a
Culver City Refund
On June 12, 2004 an
LA Times story about the Costa Mesa refunds (see Costa
Mesa section on the Camera Towns page) erroneously
stated that there had been 2000 refunds in Culver
City. The city where the refunds happened (actually amost 3000 of
them) was East LA (see the East LA section on the
Camera Towns page). The Times supplied
their story to the AP, so the incorrect story was in
hundreds of papers, worldwide.
Culver
City
Docs Set # 12
Left Turn
Camera Not Justified
New
7-17-04
Culver
City's Jefferson / Overland intersection with its
recently-installed - and very lucrative - camera
enforcement on left turns, is an excellent example
of an intersection where there is scant safety
justification for the use of the camera. Set #
12, a ten-year accident history for the
intersection, shows a total
of 41 accidents, but only one of those (9 years
ago) was caused by a driver running the left
turn light.
The accident history was provided
by the City in response to a Public Records Request.
See also "Churning Left Turn$" in Defect # 9 on the
Home Page.
Click
on: Culver City Docs Set # 13
Ticket
Counts, Late Times
Watch Out: Six New Camera Locations in
Early 2017
Set
# 13 tells how many tickets were issued at the
various intersections, and for how late into the red
(lane by lane).
The new contract signed
in Aug. 2014 added right and/or left turn enforcement
capability to many of the existing cameras, and in early
2017 the City will add six new camera locations.
See Set # 7 for more information about the new cameras.
Culver
City Docs Set # 14
Sequence
of Installation
Updated 5-25-16
Per a CCPD internal memo of Nov. 28,
2001, and the CCPD's monthly reports to the city
council, and annual ticket counts (Set # 13 above),
the "inception dates" of the cameras were:
Washington / La Cienega 2-26-99
Jefferson / Duquesne 1-13-00
Sepulveda / Green Valley 3-10-00
Washington / Beethoven 7-26-00
Sepulveda / Machado 8-14-00
Jefferson / Cota 8-24-00
Slauson / Buckingham 12-23-01
Washington / Sawtelle 2-5-02
Jefferson / Overland 8-03
Sepulveda / Centinela 8-03
Washington Place / Centinela 8-03
Washington / Helms 2005 or 2006
Sepulveda / Slauson 2005 or 2006
Right and left turn enforcement capability added to
many cameras: Early 2015
Washington / Sepulveda, Washington / National,
Overland/Washington: Early 2017 (See Set # 7,
above.)
Culver
City Docs Set # 15
The Judges
Updated 9-3-13
I
recommend moving your case away from Judge Cho or
Commissioner Pamela Davis in the Santa Monica
courthouse.
Do a Change of Venue if you can, otherwise,
file a PC on them.
See my Challenges page for more info.
Culver City Docs Set # 16
No Probable
Cause!
When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think Horses, Not
Zebras
New 7-7-14, updated 8-14-16
At the May 12, 2014 city council
meeting the police told the council that they issue a
real ticket to the registered owner of the vehicle even
when a gender and/or age mismatch has made it obvious
that the owner was not driving the vehicle at the time
of the violation.
The City's Uniform
Guidelines (required by CVC 21455.5(c)(2)(f))
confirm that May 12 statement:
| SECTION 5- General Processing
Guidelines 1. Passengers' faces shall be masked on the citation. 2. Where only partial driver information is available or no Department of Motor Vehicle ('DMV') information is available, Vendor will process the incident with "dummy" information, check the "Incomplete Details" Box and place it in the police authorization queue. The name field will read "NOF" (not on file), the address line will read "123 Any Street" and Vendor will mark the incident as "Incomplete Details". a. CCPD will be responsible to obtain full details, will uncheck the "Incomplete Details" box and Vendor will mail a Notice to Appear.3. Incidents where the driver's gender appears to be different than the registered owner's name will be placed in police authorization queue for disposition by CCPD. Vendor will check the "Incomplete Details" Box. If CCPD determines that a gender mismatch has not occurred they will uncheck the "Incomplete Details" Box and Vendor will mail a Notice to Appear. If CCPD believes a gender mismatch exists, CCPD will attempt to identify the driver of the vehicle. However, if the driver cannot be otherwise identified, a Notice to Appear will be issued to the registered owner of the vehicle on file with the DMV. |
That discussion occurred because, at that
same meeting, a local resident came to the podium
and complained about a ticket that had been issued
to him (a large man with a mustache and beard) when
the face photo showed a young woman - his daughter.
CCPD: Think Horses, Not Zebras (or Actors)!
In the Summer of 2016 the public heard
about another, rather bizarre, instance where the CCPD
issued a ticket to the wrong person.
When the officer was preparing the ticket, he noticed a
strong resemblance between the driver pictured behind
the wheel and an actor he knew socially and from
TV. So, he issued the ticket to the actor despite
the fact that the vehicle was registered to a totally
different person, in Missouri.
LA
Times article (archived
copy)
LAist
article
Local
paper article
Also see Defect # 10 - E.
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