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Mitre -Ramirez, Norma From: Huizar, Maria Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 3:43 PM To: Mitre -Ramirez, Norma Cc: Trujillo, Rose Ann; Orozco, Norma; Gray, Jacob; Alcala, Abigail Subject: FW: Concern about Santa Ana Parking Officrs Issuing Tickets at Green Meters Attachments: Santa Ana Parking Citation 759pm 062415jpg Norma, please add to the record. Non-agendized item. From: Victor Payan [ Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 3:29 PM To: Martinez, Michele Cc: Huizar, Maria Subject: Concern about Santa Ana Parking Officrs Issuing Tickets at Green Meters Hello, Michele, I wanted to reach out to you and the Council to address the egregious parking enforcement abuses in downtown Santa Ana. I am sending you a link to a video showing a Santa Ana Parking Enforcement Officer explaining why he gives parking tickets on meters that are flashing green. https://youtu.be/mgpvEymJH5Y The incident in question occurred on Saturday, July 18 at 6:09 pm following our bringing a visiting filmmaker from San Diego to downtown Santa Ana to eat at C4. Our party spent over $200 at C4, and our friend wanted to see the Santora when we told him that Rita Hayworth had a studio there and that it used to house Daniger's Tea House, which was popular with legendary film stars. Upon exiting the Santora, I saw that a Santa Ana parking enforcement officer was lifting up his equipment to issue a ticket to our friend's vehicle, even though the meter light was flashing green. I crossed the street to ask the officer why he was issuing the ticket if the meter was green. The officer explained that the meter was expired when in fact it was not. He said the meter read "Zero" but it is likely that it was still in its final minute. If the meter was expired, the light would have flashed red. When I started filming, the officer told me to get the camera "out of his face," even though I was documenting his abuse of enforcement. While asserting his rigthness in issuing a ticket to a car at a green meter, the officer in question, whose ticket machine reads 159915, then tried to change the conversation and say that our friend, who had driven across the street to pick up his aunt with Alzheimers in a wheelchair, was "blocking a crosswalk" and parked in a red zone, neither of which were true. I am doubly compelled to call this to your attention, because I myself received a ticket at 7:59:16pm by an Officer L. Perez on June 24, when I was downtown for an arts workshop, and I am now wondering if this was also issued when the meter was flashing green, as we had put ample change in the meter. To issue a ticket at 7:59:16 in a zone that stops metering at 8pm is beyond justification on moral grounds.