The contract, formally awarded this month, puts Los Angeles at the center of a statewide experiment in technology-driven traffic safety. The program is authorized under Assembly Bill 645, which created a six-city pilot allowing automated speed enforcement systems aimed at curbing excessive speeding, reducing crash deaths, and modifying driver behavior through consistent, data-driven monitoring.
Targeting the City’s Most Dangerous Corridors
Working with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), Verra Mobility will deploy speed safety systems at sites identified through crash and speed data as the city’s highest-risk corridors. Many locations will use multiple camera approaches to monitor speeding in both directions of travel, concentrating enforcement where the data shows the greatest need.
The evidence underlying the site selection is stark. According to LADOT’s Speed Safety System Impact Report, speeding was a contributing factor in 16 percent of all fatal and severe traffic crashes in Los Angeles between 2017 and 2021. In 2024 alone, more than 300 Angelenos were killed in traffic collisions — with one in five of those deaths attributed to speed.
“We’re proud to partner with the City of Los Angeles to implement the largest speed safety program in the state,” said Will Barnow, vice president at Verra Mobility. “These programs are complex and must align with strict legislative requirements, so we are honored that the City put their trust in Verra Mobility.”
Lessons From San Francisco and Oakland
Verra Mobility brings direct California experience to the program, having already implemented speed safety systems in San Francisco and Oakland — the state’s first such deployments under AB 645. The results from San Francisco have been striking: after one year of operation, the city reported an 80 percent decline in speeding at monitored locations, and residents credited the program with a nearly 50 percent drop in traffic fatalities in 2025 compared to the prior year. Nationally, cities using Verra Mobility’s technology have documented speeding reductions of up to 94 percent at camera sites.
Those numbers carry weight in a city like Los Angeles, where enforcement at scale has long been a challenge given the geographic spread and sheer volume of vehicle traffic.
Equity, Privacy, and Community Safeguards
The program is structured to address concerns that have accompanied automated enforcement proposals in other jurisdictions. Under AB 645 requirements, Verra Mobility will implement data and privacy protections, income-adjusted fines designed to reduce the burden on lower-income drivers, and community education components. The legislation was crafted with equity provisions specifically to prevent the kind of disparate ticketing impacts seen in earlier red-light camera programs.
On the construction side, Morgner Construction Management — a Los Angeles-based minority business enterprise — is expected to be contracted for the on-the-ground installation and camera setup across the 125 sites.
Verra Mobility’s California Track Record
The company has established a pattern of first-of-its-kind deployments in the state. San Francisco’s was the first speed safety program activated under AB 645. Mountain House was the first red-light camera program launched under SB 720, a separate piece of California automated enforcement legislation. Now Los Angeles represents the company’s largest and most complex California deployment yet, both by site count and by the scale of the population it will serve.
Mesa, Arizona-based Verra Mobility (NASDAQ: VRRM) operates across the government and transportation sectors, with automated enforcement as a core product line alongside tolling and commercial vehicle services.
With cameras expected to go live across the city before year’s end, Los Angeles is poised to find out whether the results seen in San Francisco — smaller, denser, and with a very different driving culture — can translate to one of the largest and most car-dependent cities in the world.