If
you haven't already done so, please read the
Hawthorne section on the Camera Towns page
City of Hawthorne Documents
(and Information)
Hawthorne, pop. 80,000, is just southeast of LAX.
It may be possible to completely
ignore a Hawthorne camera ticket!
1. The LA 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 HPD in an attempt to bluff you into identifying the driver. Hawthorne issues a lot of Snitch Tickets - in an April 2013 random sample, 49% of everything they sent out was Snitch Tickets. For more details about Snitch Tickets, see the Snitch Ticket section at the top of the Your Ticket page.Yes this is the page about Hawthorne's red light cameras, but first, this important political announcement.
In 2022, Vote No on Sheila Kuehl
Do you live in LA County? 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.)
Zev "termed out," and in the Nov. 2014 election, Sheila
Kuehl won the race to succeed him, by a narrow margin.
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.
She also 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 2022.
Details of some 2004 - 2006 (old!) trials and
arraignments of Hawthorne tickets are at: Hawthorne
Chronology.
Hawthorne
Contacts
City Hall, 4455 W. 126th St., Hawthorne, CA 90250
(310) 349-2900
(1 block west of Hawthorne Blvd.)
Councilmembers' email addresses and/or phone numbers are
at:
As of the June 8, 2021 meeting - due to the pandemic - it still was not possible for the public to attend the meetings in person, but it was possible to comment by phone. From an agenda:
"Members of the public who wish to participate in the meeting by making comments can participate by calling the city clerk no later than 4:30 pm on the date of the meeting and noting the item on which the member wants to speak by leaving a message at (310) 349-2915 and leaving your return phone number. When oral communications commence, the public member will be called and placed on speakerphone. In addition, you may offer your comments through email at pjimenez@cityofhawthorne.org. Emails must be received prior to 4:30 pm on the day of the meeting and will be provided to the city council members before the meeting. Also, emails received will be posted on the City website under City Clerk."
Hawthorne Chamber of Commerce
4444 El Segundo Blvd., Hawthorne, CA 90250
hawchamber@aol.com
(310) 676-1173
Hawthorne Docs Set # 1
Signal Timing
Updated 12-11-04,
6-25-13, 11-1-17
At the Aug. 24, 2004 court trials, Officer Mark
Escalante noted that the city had filed, with the court,
a survey of the timing of the lights. This is that
survey, obtained through a public records request made
to the City.
It is clear to me that were Hawthorne to raise their
left-yellows to 4.0 seconds, there would be a huge
decrease in red light running, as there was in Mesa, Arizona.
In September 2004 I lobbied Mr. Smith, his boss
Interim Director of Public Works Stanley E. Scholl, City
Manager Richard Prentice, Sgt. Keith Kauffman who runs
the camera program, as well as the entire city council,
to make that change. I showed them the Mesa
figures. But, as Mr. Prentice said, "We're not
gonna change it."
A Change Occurs, Anyway
On Oct. 14, 2004 I made a Public Records Act request
for the signal timing charts for Hawthorne's four
camera-monitored intersections. (Signal timing
charts show the length of the yellow, as programmed into
the signal controller.) I asked for "...the
present signal timing settings. Also any
previous versions... (with) settings in use Jan. 1,
2003 or thereafter." The request was sent to
the County Department of Public Works, which maintains
and programs Hawthorne's signals. On Nov. 10 I
received the charts. The sole Hawthorne / El
Segundo chart, dated 1998, showed the same settings
indicated in Mr. Smith's letter, above. But there
were two different charts for Rosecrans / Hindry.
The newest one, dated 9-29-04, showed a 4.0-second
yellow for northbound Hindry - different from Mr.
Smith's letter.
(In these charts, northbound Hindry is phase 4.)
Click here
to see the complete 9-29-04 chart.
The other chart, below, was completed in 2001, and
showed the 3.0-second yellow mentioned in Mr. Smith's
letter.
Since drivers in the northbound left-turn lane have
the option of going straight across (into the shopping
center), I believe that the yellow was lengthened
because 3.0 seconds would be too short for that
straight-through movement.
Click here
to see the complete 9-19-01 chart.
The new (2004) Rosecrans
/ Hindry chart did not include a lengthening of the yellow for the
westbound left turn ("WBL"), Phase 5. It remained
at 3.0 seconds. However, some of the supplemental
pages (the charts are actually 17 pages long, each)
included some changes to the lengths of the green lights at
various times of day. Those changes are presented
in the table below.
| Phase |
Time of Day (M - F) |
Up to 9-28-04 |
9-29-04 and After |
| 4
- NB |
5:30
- 9:30 a.m. |
25 |
19 |
| 4
- NB |
9:30
- 3:00 |
24 |
30 |
| 4
- NB |
3:00
- 8:00 p.m. |
24 |
25 |
| 5
- WBL |
5:30 - 9:30 a.m. | 10 |
10 |
| 5
- WBL |
9:30 - 3:00 | 17 |
25 |
| 5
- WBL |
3:00 - 8:00 p.m. | 19 |
16 |
Table made by highwayrobbery.net
WBL = Westbound Left
NB = Northbound Straight and Turns
Why the Yellow Time was Changed
On Nov. 23, 2004 I made a Public Records Act request
(to County Public Works Dept.) for "the radar speed
checks and any other measurements of traffic
conditions, speed or volume, that were ordered, or
considered, as part of the Department's Sept. 2004
examination of the timing of the signals at
Rosecrans/Hindry and Hawthorne/El Segundo, in the City
of Hawthorne." On Dec. 10 I received
the following June 14, 2004 chart, showing a 34 mph 85th
Percentile speed on Hindry. There are no
speed limit signs posted on Hindry.
Each "x" represents one car in the speed sampling of 100
cars.
City Wanted to
Change Yellow Back to the Way It Was
At the trials of Jan.
11, 2005, Officer Mullen testified that the City was
asking the county (which maintains and sets the signal)
to change the northbound Hindry yellow back to
3.0.
Signal Settings, Received in 2013
Signal timing charts received in June 2013 showed that the yellow for northbound Hindry remained at 4.0.
For the westbound left turn the yellow remained at 3.0 but the Minimum Green had been lengthened from 4 seconds to 9 seconds.
2007 - 2012 Rosecrans/Hindry Timing Charts, Top Pages Only, Last Implementation Date: May 21, 2012
2007 - 2012 Rosecrans/Hindry Timing Charts, All Pages
Speed Survey of 2014
The Engineer's Speed Survey Report
Ordinance Adopted by City Council
Signal Settings, Received in 2016
Rosecrans/Hindry, Implemented on June 26, 2012
Hawthorne Blvd./El Segundo Blvd., Prepared on Oct. 9, 2014 (No Implementation Date Shown)
Hawthorne Blvd./Imperial Hwy., Prepared on Oct. 9, 2014 (No Implementation Date Shown)
Hawthorne Docs Set # 2
Ticket Counts
Violations
Recorded, Notices Printed, and Citations Issued
(4)
Updated 12-10-20
On Oct. 6, 2004 the City Clerk's office supplied copies
of RedFlex invoices containing monthly totals of Cites
Issued (and filed with the court). Those totals
were entered into the table, below, as "Totals Cites
Issued per Invoices." RedFlex invoiced the City
$89 for each cite issued (and filed). The invoices
did not provide a camera-by-camera breakdown of cites
issued.
On Nov. 10, 2004 the City provided a RedFlex "Customer Violations
Report" having camera-by-camera data.
While the Report did not include a month-by-month
breakdown, it was possible to see that the Rosecrans /
Hindry cameras (which started on April 19) had been
averaging about 1000 notices per month. That was
the most I had seen up to that time at any intersection
in California. That count equaled the 1999 - 2000
results
from San Diego's infamous Harbor / Grape
left-turn camera.
On Jan. 4, 2005 the City
provided, for the first time, month-by-month data for
each camera. Apr.
to Dec. 2004.
In June 2005 I received data covering Jan. to
Apr. 2005.
In Oct. 2010 I received data
covering
2005 to 2010, at six-month intervals.
In Dec. 2011 I received data
covering late 2010 to 2011.
In Nov. 2012 I received data for Dec. 2011 to
Nov. 2012.
In Jan. 2013 I received data for Apr. 2010 to
Dec. 2012.
In June 2013 I received data for Oct. 2005 to May
2013.
In June 2013 I received data for Nov. 2012.
In July 2013 I received data for Aug.
2009 to July 2013 (9).
In Oct. 2013 I received data for Dec.
2004 to Sep. 2013.
In Dec. 2013 I received data for Mar. 2004
to Oct. 2013.
In Dec. 2013 I received data for Sep. to Nov.
2013.
In Apr. 2014 I received data for Dec.
2013 to Mar. 2014.
In July 2014 I received data for Mar.
2014 to June 2014.
In Sep. 2014 I received data for July
2014.
In Feb. 2015 I received data for Aug.
2014 to Dec. 2014.
In June 2015 I received data for Jan.
to May 2015.
In Dec. 2015 I received data for June
to Nov. 2015.
In May 2016 I received data for Dec.
2015 to Mar. 2016.
In Aug. 2016 I received data for Apr.
to June 2016.
In Jan. 2017 I received data for July
to Nov. 2016.
In July 2017 I received data for Nov.
2016 to Apr. 2017
In Aug. 2017 I received data for May
2017 to July 2017
In Apr. 2018 I received data for June
2014 to Mar. 2018
In Sep. 2018 I received data for Apr.
to Aug. 2018
In Feb. 2019 I received data for Sep.
to Dec. 2018
In Sep. 2019 I received data for Jan.
to Aug. 2019, but not month-by-month
In Oct. 2020 I received
data for CYs
2016, 2017, 2018, Nov. 2016, May 2017, July 2018,
Feb. 2019
In Dec. 2020 I received data for
June
2019
In Oct. 2019 I received data for Sep.
2019
In Dec. 2019 I received data for Oct.
2019
In Jan. 2020 I received data for Nov.
2019
In Mar. 2020 I received data for Dec.
2019
In Mar. 2020 I received data for CY
2019 and Jan. & Feb. 2020
In Nov. 2020 I received data for Mar.
to Sep. 2020
Snitch Tickets
The City's use of Nominations (a.k.a. Snitch Tickets)
may explain,
(A) the discrepancy between the figures for
Notices Printed and Total Cites Issued (filed with the
court), and
(B) the month-to-month overlap in the serial
numbers.
See the table's footnotes for further details.
| Cam # |
HAES 01 |
HAES 03 |
HAIM 01 |
HAIM 03 |
HIRO 01 |
IMFR 01 |
ROHI 01 |
||||||||
| CITY OF HAWTHORNE CALIFORNIA RED LIGHT CAMERAS: MONTHLY TICKETING TABLE by highwayrobbery.net |
Haw- thorne @ El Segundo Left |
Haw- thorne @ El Segundo Left |
Haw- thorne @ Imperial |
Haw- thorne @ Imperial |
Hindry NB@ Rose- crans Right and Left (5) |
Imperial @ Free- man |
Rose- crans WB@ Hindry Left (5) |
(3) |
|
Revenue from Court (thou- sands) (10) |
Serial Number Range of Cites Issued This Month, per Invoices (6) |
Total Notices Printed as % of Violations Recorded |
Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed/ Cites Issued per Invoices (1) (4) (6) |
Total Citations Issued/ Left Turn Citations Per CVC 21455.5(i) Annual Reports (11) |
|
| Mar04 |
3 |
20 |
117 71 |
174 94 |
|||||||||||
| Apr04 (6) |
67 |
152 |
783 610 |
00695 - 00716 |
70% |
1182 829 17 |
|||||||||
| May04 (6) |
139 |
108 |
844 640 |
00702- 01747 |
69% |
1292 887 724 |
|||||||||
| Jun04 (6) |
134 |
84 |
1286 867 |
776 584 |
00703- 03344 |
68% |
2444 1669 1150 |
||||||||
| Jul04 (6) |
129 |
109 |
7 |
26 |
937 676 |
163 |
735 577 |
00744- 04702 |
73% |
2312 1687 1036 |
|||||
| Aug04 (6) |
83 |
63 |
107 |
53 |
903 675 |
192 |
613 411 |
01321- 06444 |
68% |
2313 1584 1387 |
|||||
| Apr- Aug Totals (2) |
9543 6656 4314 |
||||||||||||||
| Sep04 (5) |
107 |
58 |
47 |
74 |
692 497 |
101 |
573 374 |
65% |
1934 1258 |
||||||
| Oct04 |
91 |
54 |
120 |
65 |
374 260 |
122 |
417 284 |
64% |
1568 996 |
||||||
| Nov04 |
92 |
53 |
86 |
60 |
501 391 |
127 |
509 342 |
68% |
1687 1151 |
||||||
| Dec04 |
107 |
85 |
123 |
35 |
639 448 |
118 |
691 436 |
57% |
2373 1352 |
||||||
| 2004 |
|||||||||||||||
| Jan05 |
94 |
116 |
84 |
55 |
382 235 |
113 |
483 315 |
54% |
1870 1012 |
||||||
| Feb05 |
79 |
104 |
142 |
44 |
393 223 |
120 |
447 287 |
56% |
1772 999 |
||||||
| Mar05 |
48 |
103 |
181 |
43 |
490 276 |
109 |
457 298 |
59% |
1789 1058 |
||||||
| Apr05 |
83 |
104 |
186 |
31 |
1050 665 |
39 |
259 139 |
56% |
2234 1247 |
||||||
| May05 |
141 |
2286 1190 |
|||||||||||||
| Jun05 |
1292 468 |
147 65 |
2317 912 |
||||||||||||
| Jul05 |
163 56 |
129 46 |
205 10 |
108 38 |
2695 479 |
144 57 |
130 51 |
3574 737 |
|||||||
| Aug05 |
2248 799 |
174 41 |
3238 1038 |
||||||||||||
| Sep05 |
1746 701 |
105 23 |
2668 1024 |
||||||||||||
| Oct05 |
2268 1055 |
99 37 |
3116 1360 |
||||||||||||
| Nov05 |
-34 |
2550 812 |
|||||||||||||
| Dec05 |
-41 |
2889 1165 |
|||||||||||||
| 2005 (2) |
- 12554 |
||||||||||||||
| Jan06 |
130 29 |
128 37 |
154 32 |
112 28 |
1899 955 |
132 68 |
53 18 |
2608 1167 |
|||||||
| Feb06 |
38 |
2325 1156 |
|||||||||||||
| Mar06 |
35 |
2479 1125 |
|||||||||||||
| Apr06 |
1802 857 |
68 25 |
2412 1084 |
||||||||||||
| May06 |
18 |
2163 1006 |
|||||||||||||
| Jun06 |
19 |
2132 971 |
|||||||||||||
| Jul06 |
71 14 |
118 24 |
161 29 |
83 31 |
654 203 |
189 44 |
50 10 |
1326 355 |
|||||||
| Aug06 |
9 |
2039 580 |
|||||||||||||
| Sep06 |
22 |
2017 927 |
|||||||||||||
| Oct06 |
1536 793 |
72 27 |
2115 1005 |
||||||||||||
| Nov06 |
35 |
1972 1102 |
|||||||||||||
| Dec06 |
50 |
2102 1317 |
|||||||||||||
| 2006 (2) |
- 11795 |
||||||||||||||
| Jan07 |
80 41 |
93 33 |
97 28 |
64 23 |
1066 541 |
113 57 |
57 26 |
1570 749 |
|||||||
| Feb07 |
20 |
1939 902 |
|||||||||||||
| Mar07 |
16 |
2231 818 |
|||||||||||||
| Apr07 |
1349 454 |
93 11 |
1866 531 |
||||||||||||
| May07 |
9 |
2086 367 |
|||||||||||||
| Jun07 |
25 |
1882 432 |
|||||||||||||
| Jul07 |
40 8 |
101 34 |
79 13 |
55 22 |
1237 542 |
101 33 |
203 78 |
1816 730 |
|||||||
| Aug07 |
42 |
1614 649 |
|||||||||||||
| Sep07 |
50 |
1701 718 |
|||||||||||||
| Oct07 |
1209 597 |
112 37 |
1723 775 |
||||||||||||
| Nov07 |
47 |
1565 792 |
|||||||||||||
| Dec07 |
51 |
825 399 |
|||||||||||||
| 2007 (2) |
- 7862 |
||||||||||||||
| Jan08 |
36 19 |
64 23 |
74 17 |
57 26 |
921 577 |
84 51 |
79 47 |
1315 760 |
|||||||
| Feb08 |
28 |
1324 593 |
|||||||||||||
| Mar08 |
51 |
1672 621 |
|||||||||||||
| Apr08 |
1312 342 |
91 34 |
1787 489 |
||||||||||||
| May08 |
45 |
1843 467 |
|||||||||||||
| Jun08 |
54 |
1364 313 |
|||||||||||||
| Jul08 |
25 6 |
74 11 |
62 8 |
46 12 |
806 94 |
112 30 |
127 55 |
1252 216 |
|||||||
| Aug08 |
68 |
1242 271 |
|||||||||||||
| Sep08 |
38 |
1183 490 |
|||||||||||||
| Oct08 |
1073 616 |
99 44 |
1536 774 |
||||||||||||
| Nov08 |
35 |
1312 648 |
|||||||||||||
| Dec08 |
42 |
1420 644 |
|||||||||||||
| 2008 (2) |
- 6286 |
||||||||||||||
| Jan09 |
23 14 |
67 48 |
84 34 |
62 24 |
842 478 |
97 52 |
87 24 |
1262 674 |
|||||||
| Feb09 |
32 |
1264 670 |
|||||||||||||
| Mar09 |
48 |
1431 648 |
|||||||||||||
| Apr09 |
882 357 |
92 41 |
1399 575 |
||||||||||||
| May09 |
69 |
1306 584 |
|||||||||||||
| Jun09 |
21 |
1278 587 |
|||||||||||||
| Jul09 |
15 8 |
65 33 |
70 34 |
67 30 |
858 412 |
116 56 |
121 71 |
1312 644 |
|||||||
| Aug09 |
832 396 |
115 66 |
1233 607 |
||||||||||||
| Sep09 |
707 393 |
122 82 |
1142 663 |
||||||||||||
| Oct09 |
758 417 |
113 58 |
1182 681 |
||||||||||||
| Nov09 |
731 379 |
111 67 |
1085 621 |
||||||||||||
| Dec09 |
760 440 |
454 270 |
1495 923 |
||||||||||||
| 2009 (2) |
- 7877 |
||||||||||||||
| Jan10 |
31 24 |
69 43 |
68 43 |
45 28 |
663 360 |
52 43 |
294 85 |
1222 626 |
|||||||
| Feb10 |
23 19 |
70 53 |
54 35 |
55 30 |
620 392 |
63 54 |
272 189 |
1157 772 |
|||||||
| Mar10 |
28 25 |
86 72 |
92 45 |
59 42 |
762 488 |
89 71 |
387 272 |
1503 1015 |
|||||||
| Apr10 |
17 11 |
52 37 |
71 47 |
42 31 |
799 389 |
94 58 |
284 201 |
1359 774 |
|||||||
| May10 |
21 15 |
52 30 |
76 49 |
42 30 |
780 537 |
105 83 |
357 237 |
72 |
1433 981 |
||||||
| Jun10 |
38 31 |
55 28 |
97 58 |
43 26 |
683 402 |
108 78 |
352 243 |
76 |
1376 866 |
||||||
| Jul10 |
34 19 |
41 24 |
93 59 |
40 27 |
710 408 |
92 57 |
380 255 |
81 |
1390 849 |
||||||
| Aug10 |
21 16 |
42 25 |
82 52 |
36 17 |
699 397 |
90 65 |
379 212 |
79 |
1349 784 |
||||||
| Sep10 |
24 15 |
80 35 |
85 44 |
51 36 |
650 358 |
87 66 |
358 263 |
72 |
1335 817 |
||||||
| Oct10 |
22 16 |
56 26 |
78 47 |
39 25 |
694 394 |
98 59 |
361 227 |
73 |
1348 794 |
||||||
| Nov10 |
22 14 |
56 25 |
71 51 |
17 10 |
657 419 |
96 76 |
283 114 |
59 |
1202 709 |
||||||
| Dec10 |
53 35 |
76 40 |
142 40 |
42 26 |
650 390 |
101 72 |
337 191 |
60 |
1401 794 |
||||||
| 2010 (2) |
334 240 |
735 438 |
1009 570 |
511 328 |
8367 4934 |
1073 782 |
4044 2489 |
858 (proj.) |
61% |
16073 9781 |
|||||
| Jan11 |
45 31 |
68 45 |
148 45 |
41 19 |
619 406 |
113 87 |
295 154 |
61 |
1329 787 |
||||||
| Feb11 |
63 38 |
59 30 |
134 46 |
45 28 |
593 400 |
90 69 |
266 141 |
58 |
1250 752 |
||||||
| Mar11 |
28 14 |
27 12 |
142 67 |
38 25 |
648 364 |
109 78 |
370 236 |
77 |
1362 796 |
||||||
| Apr11 |
55 30 |
63 46 |
108 49 |
51 19 |
643 354 |
96 59 |
352 201 |
65 |
1368 758 |
||||||
| May11 |
42 24 |
67 30 |
132 48 |
56 24 |
647 339 |
112 58 |
379 221 |
66 |
1435 744 |
||||||
| Jun11 |
55 30 |
83 59 |
112 44 |
56 37 |
698 403 |
99 58 |
296 198 |
62 |
1399 829 |
||||||
| Jul11 |
34 19 |
54 29 |
137 41 |
28 13 |
713 393 |
101 64 |
326 213 |
47 |
1393 772 |
||||||
| Aug11 |
59 23 |
77 52 |
236 54 |
42 30 |
665 372 |
113 70 |
451 303 |
40 |
1643 904 |
||||||
| Sep11 |
93 66 |
84 52 |
326 68 |
87 52 |
689 424 |
91 65 |
579 420 |
39 |
1949 1147 |
||||||
| Oct11 |
100 63 |
94 64 |
239 88 |
76 42 |
854 574 |
104 78 |
535 371 |
50 |
2002 1280 |
||||||
| Nov11 |
84 68 |
90 64 |
158 59 |
69 37 |
669 446 |
111 98 |
677 423 |
52 |
1858 1195 |
||||||
| Dec11 |
83 58 |
88 60 |
182 82 |
81 33 |
826 559 |
102 88 |
771 375 |
58 |
2133 1255 |
||||||
| 2011 (2) |
741 464 |
854 543 |
2054 691 |
670 359 |
8264 5034 |
1241 872 |
5297 3256 |
675 |
59% |
19121 11219 |
|||||
| Jan12 |
86 59 |
95 67 |
180 76 |
62 28 |
249 159 |
97 80 |
137 60 |
68 |
906 529 |
||||||
| Feb12 |
85 62 |
94 54 |
220 102 |
65 32 |
0 0 |
108 83 |
0 0 |
56 |
572 333 |
||||||
| Mar12 |
78 57 |
97 62 |
210 112 |
74 45 |
0 0 |
170 131 |
0 0 |
45 |
629 407 |
||||||
| Apr12 |
103 69 |
88 59 |
194 90 |
57 31 |
0 0 |
126 83 |
0 0 |
32 |
568 332 |
||||||
| May12 |
113 86 |
117 78 |
234 142 |
63 36 |
22 15 |
123 86 |
41 27 |
26 |
713 470 |
||||||
| Jun12 |
111 64 |
96 68 |
219 108 |
59 34 |
358 231 |
133 81 |
845 581 |
26 |
1821 1167 |
||||||
| Jul12 |
81 53 |
95 62 |
297 134 |
67 42 |
347 204 |
143 92 |
900 648 |
36 |
1930 1235 |
||||||
| Aug12 |
80 59 |
102 69 |
228 110 |
80 52 |
357 237 |
120 85 |
876 586 |
59 |
1843 1198 |
||||||
| Sep12 |
118 82 |
79 47 |
220 113 |
77 49 |
329 189 |
97 69 |
829 544 |
54 |
1749 1093 |
||||||
| Oct12 |
107 76 |
127 95 |
207 126 |
67 38 |
396 246 |
87 69 |
765 499 |
84 |
1756 1149 |
||||||
| Nov12 |
129 100 |
105 69 |
215 103 |
50 34 |
309 200 |
89 62 |
860 524 |
51 |
1757 1092 |
||||||
| Dec12 |
67 51 |
99 70 |
232 109 |
44 34 |
359 201 |
83 66 |
922 601 |
61 |
1806 1132 |
||||||
| 2012 (2) |
1158 818 |
1194 800 |
2656 1325 |
765 455 |
2726 1682 |
1376 987 |
6175 4070 |
598 |
63% |
16050 10137 |
|||||
| Jan13 |
128 95 |
124 90 |
216 107 |
45 28 |
265 168 |
93 69 |
688 411 |
71 |
1559 968 |
||||||
| Feb13 |
106 82 |
111 85 |
213 114 |
52 29 |
268 207 |
88 65 |
713 498 |
56 |
1551 1080 |
||||||
| Mar13 |
133 112 |
116 80 |
282 148 |
63 43 |
389 243 |
122 100 |
896 605 |
70 |
2001 1331 |
||||||
| Apr13 |
99 68 |
140 97 |
220 115 |
84 59 |
348 206 |
111 81 |
776 518 |
73 |
1778 1144 |
||||||
| May13 |
109 84 |
128 98 |
245 117 |
67 49 |
414 224 |
140 103 |
935 640 |
79 |
2038 1315 |
||||||
| Jun13 |
118 91 |
119 86 |
219 109 |
79 51 |
310 164 |
145 99 |
895 577 |
70 |
1885 1177 |
||||||
| Jul13 |
87 64 |
90 50 |
218 102 |
87 56 |
281 149 |
128 81 |
950 633 |
80 |
1841 1135 |
||||||
| Aug13 |
79 57 |
81 49 |
197 79 |
145 77 |
263 125 |
127 79 |
1004 636 |
65 |
1896 1102 |
||||||
| Sep13 |
113 78 |
108 71 |
182 67 |
117 74 |
371 110 |
104 66 |
944 607 |
63 |
1939 1073 |
||||||
| Oct13 |
124 97 |
124 77 |
243 110 |
11 2 |
371 161 |
101 64 |
931 520 |
68 |
1905 1031 |
||||||
| Nov13 |
103 60 |
106 49 |
215 89 |
10 3 |
336 137 |
100 72 |
901 491 |
53 |
1771 901 |
||||||
| Dec13 |
125 70 |
108 54 |
248 111 |
3 1 |
453 175 |
95 66 |
1022 656 |
56 |
2054 1133 |
||||||
| 2013 (2) |
1324 958 |
1355 886 |
2698 1268 |
763 472 |
4069 2069 |
1354 945 |
10655 6792 |
804 |
60% |
22218 13390 |
7019 2114 |
||||
| Jan14 |
118 65 |
89 43 |
214 91 |
4 0 |
340 95 |
105 75 |
778 556 |
57 |
1648 925 |
||||||
| Feb14 |
113 72 |
113 54 |
194 78 |
8 3 |
356 112 |
87 59 |
661 432 |
56 |
1532 810 |
||||||
| Mar14 |
146 70 |
124 50 |
132 42 |
7 0 |
401 103 |
122 61 |
936 561 |
63 |
1868 887 |
||||||
| Apr14 |
117 71 |
89 52 |
252 121 |
2 0 |
377 149 |
115 76 |
858 638 |
61 |
1810 1107 |
||||||
| May14 |
159 92 |
171 97 |
353 184 |
14 7 |
413 176 |
126 67 |
995 680 |
63 |
2231 1303 |
||||||
| Jun14 |
164 105 |
138 85 |
350 156 |
19 13 |
383 162 |
128 60 |
950 678 |
63 |
2132 1259 |
||||||
| Jul14 |
169 123 |
83 55 |
321 133 |
15 10 |
350 179 |
118 69 |
993 722 |
73 |
2049 1291 |
||||||
| Aug14 |
- - |
- - |
275 123 |
14 9 |
380 181 |
113 64 |
929 684 |
75 |
1711 1061 |
||||||
| Sep14 |
- - |
- - |
360 179 |
23 12 |
410 172 |
80 50 |
820 566 |
70 |
1693 979 |
||||||
| Oct14 |
- - |
- - |
344 181 |
20 11 |
391 147 |
113 64 |
930 598 |
79 |
1798 1001 |
||||||
| Nov14 |
- - |
- - |
269 80 |
13 4 |
420 79 |
99 48 |
838 298 |
57 |
1639 509 |
||||||
| Dec14 |
- - |
- - |
353 109 |
29 11 |
449 112 |
87 42 |
969 466 |
57 |
1887 740 |
||||||
| 2014 (2) |
986 598 |
807 436 |
3417 1477 |
168 80 |
4670 1667 |
1293 735 |
10657 6879 |
774 |
54% |
21998 11872 |
6575 4964 |
||||
| Jan15 |
0 0 |
0 0 |
370 103 |
43 25 |
432 171 |
92 53 |
568 344 |
59 |
46% |
1505 696 |
|||||
| Feb15 |
- - |
0 0 |
477 226 |
187 93 |
412 153 |
121 70 |
681 424 |
60 |
51% |
1878 966 |
|||||
| Mar15 |
- - |
0 0 |
666 266 |
252 122 |
327 77 |
117 57 |
843 418 |
71 |
43% |
2205 940 |
|||||
| Apr15 |
- - |
0 0 |
207 78 |
31 16 |
410 200 |
140 70 |
990 656 |
61 |
57% |
1778 1020 |
|||||
| May15 |
- - |
0 0 |
27 10 |
9 4 |
409 206 |
140 76 |
921 645 |
71 |
62% |
1506 941 |
|||||
| Jun15 |
0 0 |
66 29 |
192 69 |
25 12 |
369 169 |
128 48 |
966 644 |
69 |
56% |
1746 971 |
|||||
| Jul15 |
0 0 |
80 41 |
178 66 |
34 17 |
424 176 |
160 59 |
1133 665 |
67 |
61% |
2009 1024 |
|||||
| Aug15 |
14 10 |
55 33 |
187 77 |
39 15 |
458 218 |
139 71 |
1181 818 |
67 |
60% |
2073 1242 |
|||||
| Sep15 |
40 15 |
65 30 |
48 17 |
28 12 |
385 156 |
166 62 |
1125 650 |
69 |
51% |
1857 942 |
|||||
| Oct15 |
32 20 |
65 33 |
212 65 |
39 15 |
417 194 |
145 82 |
1066 688 |
71 |
56% |
1976 1097 |
|||||
| Nov15 |
33 21 |
51 22 |
160 64 |
34 15 |
429 202 |
142 92 |
758 481 |
65 |
56% |
1607 897 |
|||||
| Dec15 |
27 20 |
57 24 |
166 58 |
32 13 |
460 217 |
112 81 |
1105 685 |
67 |
56% |
1959 1098 |
|||||
| 2015 (2) |
146 86 |
439 212 |
2890 1099 |
753 359 |
4932 2139 |
1602 821 |
11337 7118 |
797 |
54% |
22099 11834 |
6492 4510 |
||||
| Jan16 |
23 11 |
63 38 |
189 64 |
27 16 |
339 184 |
99 64 |
769 526 |
68 |
60% |
1509 903 |
|||||
| Feb16 |
36 26 |
58 31 |
183 71 |
0 0 |
365 178 |
114 85 |
911 554 |
69 |
57% |
1667 945 |
|||||
| Mar16 |
27 14 |
52 28 |
212 76 |
30 19 |
364 161 |
144 75 |
1053 697 |
70 |
57% |
1882 1070 |
|||||
| Apr16 |
25 20 |
57 28 |
233 102 |
37 21 |
365 165 |
170 87 |
979 673 |
70 |
59% |
1866 1096 |
|||||
| May16 |
40 23 |
62 18 |
171 42 |
33 13 |
374 154 |
137 60 |
989 573 |
71 |
49% |
1806 883 |
|||||
| Jun16 |
27 22 |
69 36 |
251 110 |
42 18 |
389 219 |
179 107 |
1129 878 |
72 |
67% |
2086 1390 |
|||||
| Jul16 |
44 27 |
67 31 |
271 85 |
42 14 |
375 177 |
168 84 |
1177 877 |
73 |
60% |
2144 1295 |
|||||
| Aug16 |
31 18 |
71 21 |
226 71 |
16 6 |
375 129 |
186 97 |
1234 820 |
87 |
54% |
2139 1162 |
|||||
| Sep16 |
27 22 |
79 29 |
221 66 |
43 20 |
403 157 |
171 104 |
1089 731 |
77 |
56% |
2033 1129 |
|||||
| Oct16 |
20 16 |
79 35 |
153 61 |
47 19 |
374 172 |
141 81 |
966 665 |
81 |
59% |
1780 1049 |
|||||
| Nov16 |
22 13 |
78 27 |
129 33 |
52 23 |
413 142 |
150 100 |
1117 671 |
80 |
51% |
1961 1009 |
|||||
| Dec16 |
36 30 |
70 38 |
236 82 |
63 30 |
456 191 |
137 64 |
1169 831 |
64 |
59% |
2167 1266 |
|||||
| 2016 (1) |
358 242 |
805 360 |
2475 863 |
432 199 |
4592 2029 |
1796 1008 |
12582 8496 |
882 |
57% |
23040 13197 |
7272 5244 |
||||
| Jan17 |
23 14 |
59 24 |
175 63 |
42 19 |
341 128 |
122 62 |
960 679 |
83 |
57% |
1722 989 |
|||||
| Feb17 |
38 24 |
63 23 |
211 58 |
52 28 |
390 135 |
130 64 |
868 607 |
78 |
54% |
1752 939 |
|||||
| Mar17 |
36 29 |
70 29 |
260 96 |
65 34 |
459 190 |
166 100 |
1142 813 |
90 |
59% |
2198 1291 |
|||||
| Apr17 |
26 22 |
74 33 |
211 70 |
41 24 |
418 161 |
154 74 |
1151 819 |
82 |
58% |
2075 1203 |
|||||
| May17 |
32 23 |
67 26 |
262 98 |
44 18 |
394 139 |
187 59 |
1059 743 |
91 |
54% |
2045 1106 |
|||||
| Jun17 |
30 20 |
59 35 |
218 102 |
48 23 |
406 166 |
213 70 |
1076 793 |
94 |
59% |
2050 1209 |
|||||
| Jul17 |
31 21 |
85 30 |
272 93 |
56 28 |
393 144 |
220 59 |
1102 792 |
87 |
54% |
2159 1167 |
|||||
| Aug17 |
39 22 |
62 22 |
180 59 |
63 21 |
347 118 |
169 58 |
1147 840 |
89 |
57% |
2007 1140 |
|||||
| Sep17 |
51 37 |
65 15 |
267 81 |
59 18 |
380 83 |
166 62 |
1055 690 |
80 |
48% |
2043 986 |
|||||
| Oct17 |
36 31 |
74 31 |
305 121 |
49 18 |
406 142 |
178 102 |
1117 770 |
91 |
56% |
2165 1215 |
|||||
| Nov17 |
37 26 |
36 11 |
215 81 |
44 18 |
369 113 |
160 94 |
1050 730 |
77 |
56% |
1911 1073 |
|||||
| Dec17 |
24 18 |
71 23 |
261 102 |
44 14 |
450 121 |
182 103 |
1013 678 |
70 |
52% |
2045 1059 |
|||||
| 2017 (1) |
403 287 |
785 302 |
2837 1024 |
607 263 |
4753 1640 |
2047 907 |
12741 8954 |
1012 |
55% |
24173 13377 |
9106 6934 |
||||
| Jan18 |
34 26 |
71 30 |
266 91 |
50 21 |
383 110 |
170 106 |
935 640 |
80 |
54% |
1909 1024 |
|||||
| Feb18 |
35 24 |
50 20 |
208 79 |
44 17 |
367 162 |
163 102 |
912 620 |
80 |
58% |
1779 1024 |
|||||
| Mar18 |
35 23 |
80 39 |
287 113 |
56 20 |
407 176 |
188 87 |
1031 736 |
97 |
57% |
2084 1194 |
|||||
| Apr18 |
19 9 |
62 29 |
204 72 |
53 31 |
329 138 |
225 90 |
1012 706 |
85 |
57% |
1904 1075 |
|||||
| May18 |
42 34 |
64 24 |
219 80 |
58 26 |
377 176 |
197 53 |
1047 751 |
72 |
57% |
2004 1144 |
|||||
| Jun18 |
34 23 |
93 39 |
312 117 |
52 27 |
425 220 |
213 67 |
968 688 |
68 |
56% |
2097 1181 |
|||||
| Jul18 |
43 32 |
127 65 |
257 111 |
55 28 |
393 178 |
231 81 |
1097 788 |
85 |
58% |
2203 1283 |
|||||
| Aug18 |
36 19 |
96 34 |
231 98 |
63 26 |
462 191 |
273 106 |
1066 787 |
75 |
57% |
2227 1261 |
|||||
| Sep18 |
6 5 |
32 5 |
217 100 |
40 17 |
421 189 |
242 78 |
1048 694 |
72 |
54% |
2006 1088 |
|||||
| Oct18 |
0 0 |
0 0 |
0 0 |
0 0 |
401 241 |
233 109 |
1009 691 |
89 |
63% |
1643 1041 |
|||||
| Nov18 |
36 24 |
60 3 |
0 0 |
0 0 |
435 255 |
214 91 |
875 540 |
84 |
56% |
1620 913 |
|||||
| Dec18 (8) |
32 21 |
64 3 |
223 79 |
42 11 |
466 284 |
202 105 |
1010 599 |
64 |
54% |
2039 1102 |
|||||
| 2018 (1) |
352 240 |
799 290 |
2425 940 |
513 223 |
4866 2322 |
2551 1076 |
12010 8240 |
951 |
57% |
23516 13331 |
9311 6419 |
||||
| Jan19 (12) |
91 |
||||||||||||||
| Feb19 |
16 6 |
22 5 |
240 68 |
51 20 |
246 149 |
165 50 |
588 352 |
55 |
49% |
1328 650 |
|||||
| Mar19 (12) |
79 |
||||||||||||||
| Apr19 (12) |
80 |
||||||||||||||
| May19 (12) |
69 |
||||||||||||||
| Jun19 |
76 |
1648 933 |
|||||||||||||
| Jul19 (12) |
73 |
||||||||||||||
| Jan-Aug19 (12) |
211 125 |
543 167 |
1807 566 |
294 107 |
2957 1829 |
1588 778 |
6293 4013 |
60 |
55% |
13693 7585 |
|||||
| Sep19 |
35 22 |
67 30 |
175 25 |
34 12 |
438 194 |
207 141 |
1266 826 |
66 |
56% |
2222 1250 |
|||||
| Oct19 |
46 28 |
64 28 |
222 31 |
29 11 |
475 117 |
208 148 |
1336 798 |
83 |
49% |
2380 1161 |
|||||
| Nov19 |
26 18 |
75 34 |
241 16 |
23 1 |
416 71 |
188 123 |
1269 673 |
42% |
2238 936 |
||||||
| Dec19 |
39 27 |
59 31 |
243 32 |
24 6 |
474 93 |
210 148 |
1243 664 |
44% |
2292 1001 |
||||||
| 2019 (1) |
357 220 |
808 290 |
2688 670 |
403 137 |
4760 2304 |
2400 1338 |
11406 6974 |
878 (proj.) |
52% |
22822 11933 |
7561 4815 |
||||
| Jan20 |
25 17 |
79 30 |
248 16 |
25 5 |
392 51 |
232 155 |
992 505 |
39% |
1993 779 |
||||||
| Feb20 |
30 20 |
62 25 |
208 25 |
26 5 |
381 72 |
201 156 |
876 481 |
44% |
1784 784 |
||||||
| Mar20 |
37% |
1703 629 |
|||||||||||||
| Apr20 |
0% |
1102 0 |
|||||||||||||
| May20 |
37% |
1294 482 |
|||||||||||||
| Jun20 |
48% |
1979 945 |
|||||||||||||
| Jul20 |
50% |
2319 1154 |
|||||||||||||
| Aug20 |
46% |
2437 1131 |
|||||||||||||
| Sep20 |
46% |
2427 1116 |
|||||||||||||
| Oct20 (13) |
|||||||||||||||
| Nov20 |
|||||||||||||||
| Dec20 |
|||||||||||||||
| 2020 (2) (proj.) |
44% |
23904 10530 |
|||||||||||||
| Cam # |
HAES 01 |
HAES 03 |
HAIM 01 |
HAIM 03 |
HIRO 01 |
IMFR 01 |
ROHI 01 |
||||||||
| CITY OF HAWTHORNE CALIFORNIA RED LIGHT CAMERAS: MONTHLY TICKETING TABLE by highwayrobbery.net |
Haw- thorne @ El Segundo Left |
Haw- thorne @ El Segundo Left |
Haw- thorne @ Imperial |
Haw- thorne @ Imperial |
Hindry NB@ Rose- crans Right and Left (5) |
Imperial @ Free- man |
Rose- crans WB@ Hindry Dual Left (5) |
(3) |
|
Revenue from Court (thou- sands) (10) |
Serial Number Range of Cites Issued This Month, per Invoices (6) |
Total Notices Printed as % of Violations Recorded |
Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed/ Cites Issued per Invoices (1) (4) (6) |
Total Citations Issued/ Left Turn Citations Per CVC 21455.5(i) Annual Reports (11) |
This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official city documents obtained under the California Public Records Act.
( ) indicates a footnote.
(1) Totals as provided by the City.
(2) These totals, annual totals, and annual
projections, are by highwayrobbery.net. The 2017
projections are based on Jan. - Dec., excluding May.
The 2019 projections of annual revenue is based on ten
months of revenue data. The 2020 projection is based
on eight months, excluding April.
(3) Un-used columns are to allow for later expansion
of City's system.
(4) Figures in red type (or, if you are
looking at this table in black and white, the upper figure
when there are two or more figures in a cell) are what
RedFlex calls Total Violations or Total Incidents recorded
by the cameras, and due to time limitations may have been
posted only for selected months or locations. If
there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months
will be posted. The figures in black type are what
RedFlex calls Notices Printed, and represent the sum of
genuine citations issued (those filed with the court) plus
Nominations mailed (not
filed with the court, a.k.a. Snitch Tickets).
Figures in blue type
(or, if you are looking at this table in black and white,
in italic type)
are total Cites Issued (filed with the court), per
RedFlex's monthly invoices to the City.
(5) On Sept. 29, 2004 the yellow for northbound
Hindry was increased, from 3.0 up to 4.0 seconds, and
adjustments were made to the length of the green
lights. See Set # 1, above, for more details.
(6) The only invoices (of Cites Issued) received
covered Apr. to Aug. 2004. The invoices did not
contain a camera-by-camera breakdown of Cites
Issued. For month-by-month figures on fine revenue
received by the City, see Set # 10, below.
(7) Partial
month.
The official report for this month was generated a few
days before or after the end of the month, so the number
of tickets eventually issued may be higher than shown in
the official report. In some cases, the data has not
been entered into the table, pending receipt of a report
for the full month.
(8) The official report for this month was generated
less than ten days after the end of the month. As a
result, many violations were still "in progress" and
the eventual number of "approved violations" would be
expected to be greater than the number shown in the
official report. Before being posted in the table above,
the figures given in the official monthly report were
adjusted by assuming that the "in progress" violations
would be approved in the same proportion that violations
were approved during the previous calendar year. For
July and Dec. 2018 the proportion used was 55%.
(9) This set of reports did not include data for
HAES-01 as it was inactive at the time the reports were
run.
(10)
For more info about monthly revenue, see Set #
10, below.
(11) From
the annual
reports required, beginning with 2013, by CVC
21455.5(i). They become available by the Fall of the
following year.
(12) Month-by-month reports for these months were
requested on 8-21-19, 9-9-19, 9-19-19, 10-2-19 and
10-17-19.
(13) Month-by-month reports for these months were
requested on 10-15-20.
Hawthorne Docs Set # 3
"Late Time"
Graphs
The City has provided bar graphs of
Late Times, etcetera, for all of its cameras.
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.
2006
Bar Graphs
2010 Bar
Graphs
2011
Bar Graphs
2012 Bar Graphs
Jul.
2013
Bar Graphs
June
2014 Bar Graphs
Mar.
& Oct. 2015 Tabular Version
March
2017 Tabular Version
March 2018 Tabular Version
June 2019 Tabular Version
Bar graphs are available for more than
fifty other cities - see the list in the expanded
version of Defect # 9.
Hawthorne Docs Set # 4
Info on HPD
Site?
I have not been able to find a red light camera program info page on either the City's or the police department's website.
Hawthorne
Docs Set # 5
Rosecrans /
Hindry
Do you have a Rosecrans/Hindry
ticket? Please be sure to contact me.
New 11-14-04, updated 7-21-13
Hawthorne's Rosecrans/Hindry intersection with its
heavy enforcement on left and right turns, is an example
of an intersection where there is scant safety
justification for the use of the cameras. The
table below shows the number of accidents the police
attributed to red light running (northbound rolling
right, westbound left turn).
Rearenders Way Up
The table also shows the number of accidents the police
coded as "rear end" - which rose after the cameras were
installed. (Were we to "cherry pick" the data and
leave out the 1995 and 1996 rearenders, the with-camera
increase in rearenders would be 154%. Otherwise -
including the data from 1995 and 1996 - the increase was
81%.)
| Rosecrans / Hindry CVC 21453(a) or (c) Accidents (northbound rolling right or westbound left) |
Rearenders (all directions) |
|
| 1995 |
0 |
4 |
| 1996 |
0 |
4 |
| 1997 |
0 |
0 |
| 1998 |
0 |
1 |
| 1999 |
0 |
3 |
| 2000 |
0 |
1 |
| 2001 |
0 |
1 |
| 2002 |
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Documents for Table
See also Defect # 9 on the Home page, and FAQ # 27.
The too short yellow (3.0 secs.) is the main reason why
there are so many left turn tickets at
Rosecrans/Hindry. The location of the limit line
and the narrowness of the lanes may be partly to blame.
Official
Striping
Plan
Video
of Cars Lining Up and Turning
Google and Bing Photos of Intersection
Bing's photo of Rosecrans/Hindry before 2012 remodel
Google's photo of Rosecrans/Hindry before 2012 remodel
Apple's photo of Rosecrans/Hindry after 2012 remodel (Apple blurred the cars)
highwayrobbery.net's photo of Rosecrans/Hindry after 2012 remodel, looking south (photo taken July 2013)
Google photo of similar intersection, Sepulveda at 30th in Manhattan Beach
Hawthorne Docs Set # 6
Snitch
Ticket
Here's an example of a Hawthorne Snitch Ticket,
a.k.a. "Nomination"
Hawthorne Docs Set # 7
Read
about Evicted Former Mayor Brown, Crooked Former
Mayor Juarez, Crooked Former Mayor Guidi, and
Crooked Former Councilmember Velez
In 2014 Hawthorne Mayor Chris Brown's landlord evicted
him for not paying rent, and in early 2015 his new
landlord was in the process of evicting him. Daily
Breeze article (As of Nov. 2015 Brown no
longer was the mayor.)
In Oct. 2012 the Grand Jury indicted Mayor Daniel
Juarez on two felony counts of perjury, related
to his acceptance of a $2000 cash "campaign donation"
from a local firm which the City lent $2.5 million.
Then in Aug. 2013 he was indicted on four more
counts of perjury, related to his deposit of a $2500
check from the AYSO into his personal checking
account. LA
Times
article
He chose not to run for re-election in Nov. 2013, and in
May 2014 he pled guilty to one felony count. Daily
Breeze article
Before Juarez, the longtime Mayor of Hawthorne
was Larry Guidi. GuidiWatch
discussed the 2010 charging of Guidi for grand
theft of a commercial dough mixer from his (now former)
employer, the local school district. Guidi chose
to not run for re-election in Nov. 2011. He
pled guilty in Feb. 2012.
Before Guidi ran into trouble, his friend and fellow
councilmember Louis Velez was indicted for felony
conflict of interest in July 2007 and pled guilty in
Feb. 2008.
Hawthorne Docs Set # 8
Trial
Transcript
This Hindry-Rosecrans right-turn trial transcript shows how close a judge can come to convicting you - when it may not have been you - and also is an example of what may be improper arm-twisting by a judge.
Hawthorne Docs Set # 9
The
Contract, Etc.
2003
Contract
2009
Contract
2012
Extension
2012 Extension,
signed
The 2009 contract included, in its
Exhibit D, an illegal "cost neutrality" clause.
(See Defect # 10 - B.)
The contract possibly provides
a monetary sanction against the city if city traffic
engineers lengthen the yellows. The contract
reads:
"Cost neutrality is guaranteed except as follows:
If the signal amber timings at the photo enforced
intersections are not set to the minimum requirements of
Caltrans in California." (Exhibit D of Contract.)
The passage is open to two conflicting interpretations.
1. The City is required to maintain yellows that
are at least as long as the minimum specified by the
CalTrans - but they can be longer.
2. The City may not set yellows that are longer
than the minimum.
The contract also says: "Definitions.
'Warning Period' means a period after the Installation
Date of the first intersection
approach..." (Emphasis added.) See
Defect # 6.
The 2009 contract, with extensions,
will expire in 2017.
On Mar. 13, 2012 the council voted to make the following amendments to the contract.
New Section 6.2 allows the City to cancel
the program at any time, on 30 days notice.
Cost neutrality was replaced with an
annual evaluation of the "financial feasibility" of the
program.
The vote was 3 - 0, with English,
Michelin and Juarez voting yes and Vargas and Valentine
abstaining (the minutes do not explain why they
abstained).
During the Mar. 13, 2012 council
meeting there was this testimony by Hawthorne Police
Captain Keith Kauffman (in late 2015 Kauffman was
appointed to be Chief of Police in the City of Redondo
Beach):
"The hope is that driving
behavior is corrected, not just through that
intersection but through the rest of the time
you're driving here." "You need to study
accidents overall. Some of the data that you
don't have is accidents for their entirety in our
city. You know what, you're right,
they're not going down. I wish they were."
Beginning at 0:53:55 in the video of the meeting,
available at CityofHawthorne.com
Unfortunately, the 2012 amendment did
not include a reduction in the $2800 rent that had been
agreed to in 2009, and as a result the City will be
paying WAY too much during the 2012 - 2017
extension. For example: In March 2014 the
City of Elk Grove, California approved a new contract
which specified the following schedule of rents for
their five RedFlex cameras.
From Exh. D of the Elk
Grove Contract
But there is a way out. One of the 2012 amendments allows the City to cancel the program on short notice, giving the City the leverage to negotiate a better price.
To see how much other cities pay for their cameras, and how they negotiated, go to FAQ # 17.
As of March 2018 invoices showed that the City still was paying $2800 monthly for each camera, and as of March 2020 there was no document replacing or extending the contract which expired in March 2017.
Dec. 15, 2020: Contract Extension Approved
2012 was the last time the cameras were
up for discussion on a Hawthorne council agenda.
The cameras were originally to be discussed during the Tuesday Oct. 13, 2020 council meeting, but it got put off at the last moment.
(During the Oct. 13 meeting the council
announced that the red light camera item was being "pulled"
(removed from the agenda) per a staff request. Later the city clerk said it was
because they had heard from some "neighbors" (dunno if that means neighboring cities, or
neighboring residents, or local businesses) and staff wanted to provide more info to
the council.
In early November the city manager told us it would be heard at a special
meeting on Dec. 15 - see details below).
The one-page staff report prepared for the Oct. 13 meeting was "bare bones;" it asked the council to approve paying RedFlex $240,000 - which is enough to cover one year's rent of the cameras. The staff report contained no discussion of safety, or anything else.
But even with nothing in the staff report, there was - and is - lots for the public to discuss, such as Hawthorne's primary moneymaker,
the Rosecrans/Hindry left turn with its short yellow (3.0 sec.). (See our letter and Jay Beeber's explanation
of why left turn yellows should be longer.)
There's the lack of an accident history justifying the very heavy enforcement at Rosecrans/Hindry. (See Set # 5, above.)
And there is Capt. Kauffman's admission - during a council meeting - that accidents aren't going down. (Here in Set # 9, highlighted in red.)
The Nov. 3 election may have changed things in Hawthorne. There is one new
councilmember and one returning after being off the council for two years. And, the proposed 50% increase (from 5% up to 7.5%) of the utility tax failed to pass, perhaps because it followed a Nov. 2017 3/4% increase in the City's sales tax.
A new agenda and staff report, including the potential amendment became available the Friday evening before the Dec. 15 meeting.
Our new letter
The council voted to extend the contract.
***
Participating in council meetings:
The council meetings are on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, and usually start at 6:00 pm. The Oral Communications section - your chance to speak for up to three minutes - will be near the beginning of the meeting, right after presentations by local non-profit organizations.
As of the June 8, 2021 meeting - due to the pandemic - it still was not possible for the public to attend the meetings in person, but it was possible to comment by phone. From an agenda:
"Members of the public who wish to participate in the meeting by making comments can participate by calling the city clerk no later than 4:30 pm on the date of the meeting and noting the item on which the member wants to speak by leaving a message at (310) 349-2915 and leaving your return phone number. When oral communications commence, the public member will be called and placed on speakerphone. In addition, you may offer your comments through email at pjimenez@cityofhawthorne.org. Emails must be received prior to 4:30 pm on the day of the meeting and will be provided to the city council members before the meeting. Also, emails received will be posted on the City website under City Clerk."
This list of contracts and amendments may not be
up-to-date - there could be a contract or amendment
later than the ones listed above.
Hawthorne Docs Set # 10
The
Revenue
The City's monthly ticket revenue from the court is
available in the Revenue Spreadsheet on the LA County
Docs page.
An official report showed that in 2014, 91% of the City's tickets were for turns, mostly left turns.
Hawthorne Docs Set # 12
More
Coming
There may be some more Hawthorne information posted in
the next few weeks. Mark your calendar to remind
you to come back here and look!
Details of some trials of Hawthorne tickets are at: Hawthorne Chronology.
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