Parking enforcement: video images: Los Angeles County.

Existing law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco) and the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) to enforce parking violations in specified transit-only traffic lanes through the use of video imaging, and authorizes San Francisco and AC Transit to install automated forward facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit vehicles for the purpose of video imaging parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes. Existing law requires a designated employee, who is qualified by San Francisco or AC Transit, to review video image recordings for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a transit-only traffic lane, and to issue a notice of parking violation to a registered owner of a vehicle within 15 calendar days of the date of the violation. Existing law makes these video image records confidential, and provides that these records are available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations. Existing law establishes the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. This bill would extend those provisions to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, thereby authorizing the authority to install automated forward facing parking control devices on authority-owned public transit vehicles, as specified. The bill would authorize the authority to issue parking citations for any parking violation collected by those devices, as specified. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. The bill would make legislative findings to that effect.