Vehicles: delinquent parking violations: video imaging: transit-only lanes.

Existing law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco) , until January 1, 2012, to enforce parking violations in specified transit-only traffic lanes through the use of video imaging evidence and authorizes San Francisco to install automated forward-facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit vehicles for the purpose of video imaging of parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes. Existing law requires a designated employee, who is qualified by San Francisco, to review the video image for determining whether these parking violations have occurred and to issue a notice of a parking violation to the registered owner within 15 days of the violation. Existing law requires that the video image records be confidential and available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations and that the City and County of San Francisco provide to the transportation committees of the Legislature an evaluation of the pilot program's effectiveness no later than March 1, 2011, if it implements a pilot program pursuant to these provisions. This bill would extend the above-described provisions to January 1, 2016, and would redefine "transit-only traffic lane" as any designated transit-only lane on which use is restricted to mass transit vehicles, or other designated vehicles including taxis and vanpools, during posted times. The bill would also delete the prohibition that video images captured pursuant to these provisions shall not be transmitted wirelessly and would require that the devices record the date and time of the violation at the same time as the video images are captured. The bill would extend to January 1, 2016, those provisions governing the content of a delinquent parking violation that are applicable to notices of parking violations in specified transit-only lanes issued by the City and County of San Francisco. The bill would also require instead the City and County of San Francisco to provide to the transportation and judiciary committees of the Legislature an evaluation of the pilot program's effectiveness and impact on privacy no later than March 1, 2015, if it implements the pilot program pursuant to these provisions.