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Salt Lake City has issued nearly 400,000 parking tickets from 2019 to 2025.

The tickets have totaled $15.2 million in penalties, with expired meters being the top offense.

Downtown's growth has increased parking demand and citations; the busiest ticket times were 10 a.m. to noon.

SALT LAKE CITY — In a city with a full-time population of close to 220,000, KSL-TV has learned compliance officers wrote nearly 400,000 parking tickets over a roughly six-year period from 2019 to 2025.

According to an analysis of a massive dataset obtained by KSL-TV, officers wrote 396,345 citations and warnings from Jan. 1, 2019, to June 13, 2025 — including 114,553 for expired meters, and another 46,215 for parking longer than allowed.

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