City of Los Angeles Illegally Fines People for Parking for $93; Mayor Karen Bass, Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, and Ken Husting to Blame.

Ken Husting, 
Principal Transportation Engineer for
LADOT's Bureau of Parking Management

 To be heard on June 20th, this year, I filed a challenge to a parking ticket I illegally received for $93 from the City of Los Angeles. The problem with the ticket is that I was fined for parking in a red fire zone, when the curb is painted a dark blue grey and not red. See picture below. 

I complained to Mayor Karen Bass; Council Member Eunisses Hernandez (who is in charge of that district), and Ken Husting, the Principal Transportation Engineer for LADOT's Bureau of Parking Management. I filed two agency challenges to the ticket, but both of them said that the ticket was valid, even though the color of the paint is not red. There are no other parking signs to give notice to motorists this is an illegal area to park in.

On February 3, 2025, Husting emailed, "in my opinion there is enough to see a red curb." Clearly, this is contradicted by the picture below.

According to NBC last month, the city of Los Angeles wants to more aggressively enforce parking citations as a way to raise revenue for the City. By aggressive enforcement, it also intends to cite motorists who are not illegally parked, which is the equivalent of stealing their money.

Crosstown stated that the parking enforcement staff costs are actually costing the City more money than parking citations actually bring in. Ken Husting's salary alone, according to Transparent California, with benefits, is $308, 128.29.

The solution to this is to hold Mayor Karen Bass, who a number of people have claimed in incompetent, because she was partying in Ghana, while Los Angeles burned; along with Hernandez accountable. Currently, to pay for just the gross amount of Husting's salary, the City needs to issue 3313 tickets per year. The City needs to rethink through its parking scheme and enforcement.