Does L.A. *still* owe you a parking ticket refund?

Good morning, it’s Tuesday, Sept. 15, and you can expect highs in the low 80s — a continued respite from last week’s misery.

Earlier this summer, we found that the City of L.A. had issued more than $1 million worth of street sweeping tickets on days when there wasn’t actually any sweeping.

That investigation came with a caveat: The Department of Transportation said that while it occasionally issues bad tickets, it proactively reimburses them soon after they’re issued — and, besides, people can contest them via the agency’s online portal.

But new data I obtained via the California Public Records Act shows those supposed safeguards don’t appear to have worked. Not only have thousands of drivers, many of them in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, apparently gone without reimbursement, but several hundred people were still told to pay up even after contesting their bad tickets.

Late Monday evening, LADOT said that it would be "conducting an audit of sweeping citations.” The department “will reimburse any paid citations determined to have been issued in error,” a spokesperson said. 

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