It’s a “bad day LA” for the traffic cameras, even if neither of the problems today are located in Los Angeles.  Instead we’re looking at camera systems in Santa Ana and Santa Maria.

The camera system in Santa Maria, or so I’m told, is being completely pulled out as it wasn’t–get this!–making enough revenue.  The company that OWNED the cameras (didn’t the city own the cameras?  guess not!) repossessed them!

And then, as if that weren’t bad enough, it turns out that Santa Ana’s system was illegal!

In August, Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Kenneth Schwartz declared the (Santa Ana’s) program in violation of a number of provisions of state law

This is a double sock in the gut for a couple of California cities, and as we all know, California is having SERIOUS budget problems right now, and may well be either pushing insolvency by now or may actually be there by now, I don’t specifically know which, but I know they’re not doing well.

So these hits happen at what may be the worst possible time for California.