“LADOT is committed to fair and transparent parking enforcement policies,” a spokesperson wrote. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
AFTER AN L.A. MATERIAL INVESTIGATION this summer found that the City of L.A. issued nearly $1 million worth of street sweeping tickets on days when workers didn’t actually sweep the streets, the Department of Transportation downplayed the problem.
The agency said that while it occasionally issues tickets in error, it “proactively dismisses” them soon after and “sends instructions for reimbursement to motorists” who have already paid. LADOT also suggested that anybody who received a bad ticket could contest it online.
But new data obtained by L.A. Material shows that, in many cases, that system of safeguards appears to have failed, and that thousands of bogus tickets that should have been dismissed apparently were not.
In response to questions about those new findings from L.A. Material, LADOT spokesperson Colin Sweeney said Monday evening that “the department is conducting an audit of sweeping citations and will reimburse any paid citations determined to have been issued in error.”
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