{"id":403273,"date":"2026-07-18T07:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403273\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:06:28","slug":"los-angeles-issued-more-than-12k-bogus-parking-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/403273\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles issued more than 12K bogus parking tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles has raked in nearly $1 million by slapping drivers with parking tickets<\/a> for street sweeping violations \u2014 even on days when no street sweepers ever showed up.<\/p>\n

A new analysis found the city continued citing motorists despite the fact that many neighborhoods don\u2019t get street sweeping every week<\/a>. Yet drivers were still hit with the $73 tickets as if the cleaning crews had rolled through.<\/p>\n

Over the past five years, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation(LA DOT) issued more than 12,500 of the allegedly bogus citations, collecting roughly $910,000 in fines from unsuspecting Angelenos, according to LA Material<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Looking at the city\u2019s traffic citation data<\/a> against the schedules and routes for street<\/a> sweeping in the city, the report compared the location and time data to find what it called the bad tickets.<\/p>\n

\"AA southern California city is taking in nearly one million dollars in bogus parking ticket fines. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Budget cuts in 2021 resulted in street cleaning reductions, down to every other week in a majority of spots in the city, despite the fact that there\u2019s thousands of signs banning parking every week due to street sweeping.<\/p>\n

Typically, street sweepers hit neighborhoods in the city either on the first and third week of the month or the second and fourth week of the month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The \u201coff week\u201d rule says you won\u2019t get a ticket on weeks when no cleaning occurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cLADOT follows the Bureau of Street Services (BSS) street sweeping schedule, available at [streets.lacity.gov], and does not issue citations when BSS cancels or does not schedule service,\u201d per a statement to the LA Times<\/a> from DOT.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile LADOT\u2019s parking enforcement officers receive biweekly schedules and assigned routes, discrepancies can occur when scheduled routes are canceled without prior notice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLADOT prepares a bi-weekly street sweeping citation cancellation list to identify and cancel citations issued in error,\u201d it added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ADespite the fact that street sweeping doesn\u2019t occur every week, the report found Angelenos were still being issued tickets on days no cleaning was happening. Getty Images\/iStockphoto<\/p>\n

The city has promised that if a \u201ccitation has already been paid, LADOT\u2019s Parking Violations Bureau contacts the recipient by mail with instructions on how to request reimbursement,\u201d per the statement.<\/p>\n

When pressed by LA Material about the reportedly erroneous tickets, LA DOT said that it \u201cproactively dismisses any street sweeping issues issued in error\u201d and \u201csends instructions for reimbursement to motorists who have already provided payment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report noted the department did not provide them with examples of how many times so-called bad tickets were canceled or those who paid them mistakenly, were reimbursed.<\/p>\n

LADOT told the outlet the number of mistakenly issued tickets are on the decline, pointing to some 2,000 bad tickets issued in 2025, voiding the \u201cvast majority\u201d of them.<\/p>\n

The California Post reached out to the city for further information.<\/p>\n

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