The Santa Ana City Council voted Tuesday to ask California leaders toinclude the city in the state’s speed camera pilot program in an effort to scale up enforcement.
A 2023 state law allows some cities, such as Los Angeles, to pilot programs using cameras that detect speeding drivers and issue citations. San Francisco and Oakland have already set up those cameras and have reported seeing more than a 70% reduction in speeding at the camera spots.
The item was introduced in April by Councilmember Phil Bacerra, who said Segerstrom Avenue in his district is especially unsafe due to speeding drivers…