{"id":2380,"date":"2011-07-28T15:17:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2012-08-24T14:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T18:36:41","slug":"la-city-council-votes-against-red-light-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"LA City Council Votes against Red Light Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/red-light-camera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/red-light-camera.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"red-light-camera\" width=\"81\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2379\" style=\"float: left; margin: 3px 5px 0 0;\"  \/><\/a>In an unanimous vote on Wednesday, Los Angeles City Council has decided to terminate the city&#8217;s controversial red light camera program.  According to council members, loop holes in the laws governing the program resulted in only about 60% of the tickets being paid, failing to generate enough income to keep the program going.  Both the Police Commission and the Los Angeles Superior Court felt the program could not be enforced and should be canceled.  Critics of the program felt that the city was using the program only for revenue and accused them of putting up the cameras at intersections that would generate the most income and did little to improve safety on the roads.  Camera programs have been canceled by many cities and towns across the country and the viability of programs still in affect are being questioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/red-light-camera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/red-light-camera.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"red-light-camera\" width=\"81\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2379\" style=\"float: left; margin: 30x 5px 0 0;\"  \/><\/a>In an unanimous vote on Wednesday, Los Angeles City Council has decided to terminate the city&#8217;s controversial red light camera program.  According to council members, loop holes in the laws governing the program resulted in only about 60% of the tickets being paid, failing to generate enough income to keep the program going.  Both the Police Commission and the Los Angeles Superior Court felt the program could not be enforced and should be canceled.  Critics of the program felt that the city was using the program only for revenue and accused them of putting up the cameras at intersections that would generate the most income and did little to improve safety on the roads.  Camera programs have been canceled by many cities and towns across the country and the viability of programs still in affect are being questioned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=2380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,1022,1221,179],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-california","tag-la","tag-lemon-laws","tag-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}