City of Los Alamitos, California
Los Alamitos, pop. 13,000, is 5 miles northeast of Long Beach.
In July 2005 the City signed a contract with RedFlex. Many RedFlex towns send out "Snitch Tickets," which you can ignore. A Snitch Ticket will not have the Court's name and address on it. For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.
The original contract included an illegal "cost neutrality" clause (see Defect # 10 - B), whereby the city did not have to pay RedFlex the full rent if there weren't enough fines to cover the cost. On Nov. 4, 2007 the Orange County Register published an article which revealed that in January 2007 an Orange County Superior Court Commissioner dismissed a Los Alamitos ticket and "...issued an opinion opposing the agreements (the contract)."
After that court decision, the city revised its contract, eliminating cost neutrality but adding a clause allowing delayed payment for 90 days after new camera installations