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City of Cerritos Documents
(and Information)

Cerritos, pop. 57,000, is 12 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official monthly reports of citations actually issued.
Official reports, 2003 - 2004
Official reports, 2008 - Feb. 2009
Official reports, 2009
Official reports, Jan. 2010 (last month of Nestor data)
Official reports, 2010, Jan. to Aug. monthly totals
Official reports, 2010 - 2011, including annual totals
Official reports, 2012, Jan. - Feb.
Official reports, 2012, Mar. - Nov.

( ) 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) Figures in red type are "raw" violations recorded by the cameras. The figures in black type are citations issued.
(5) No data has been requested.
(6) Overall total for 2009 is by highwayrobbery.net.
(7) This title bar is for the ATS system, which began in Feb. 2010.
(8) Feb. 2010 is first month of operation under ATS software.
(9) Intersection-by-intersection data for this month or year has not been posted, or fully posted, in the table, but is available
at one of the links just below the table.
(10) Intersection-by-intersection data for this month or year has not been requested.

Cerritos Docs Set # 2
Delayed Signal Lamp

In early March 2005 a reader of this website sent me this photo he took of the signal at westbound South St. / Studebaker.

Evidently, the City had two different kinds of lamps in the signal, some LED's, and some incandescent bulbs. See Defect # 7 on the Home page for an explanation why some lamps take longer to come on. If you would like to see a sequence of photos taken at 1/16 second intervals, click on the photo above. (Big file - 584 kb)

Below is a copy of the photos from the reader's ticket, which was from November 2004.
In the first photo below, you can see that the lighted lamp on the long arm is in the upper, or red, position, while the lighted lamp on the vertical pole is in the middle, or yellow, position.

In the second photo from the ticket, you can see that the lighted lamp (on the pole) is now in the upper, or red, position.
Since the ticket said that the car crossed the limit line 0.25 second after the red (I call this the "Late Time"), we assume that the first photo on the ticket was taken after the power to the red lamps had been on for 0.25 second.
In March 2005 the sheriff agreed to dismiss the reader's ticket, but stated that the problem had been fixed.

If your ticket is at any Cerritos intersection and the Late Time is 0.25 or less, I recommend that you carefully examine the photos, to see if the the lights were correct.

If you are looking at your ticket and are having trouble telling whether the lights are red or yellow, have a look at FAQ # 20 on the Links page.

Cerritos Docs Set # 3
The Contract, Amendments, Guidelines

2002 Contract & 2003 Amendment
More of 2002 Contract
Guidelines (Policies and Procedures)
Transfer from Nestor to ATS

The contract expired when the cameras were three years old in March 2006 and since that time the arrangement with the camera vendor has been month-to-month. The City has been paying $3987 for each camera, monthly, an overpayment of $71,064 annually (when compared with a target rent of $3000 for cameras older than five years). See FAQ # 17.

This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of Jan. 24, 2013.