SALT LAKE CITY — In a city with a full-time population of close to 220,000, KSL 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 data set obtained by KSL, 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.

Expired registrations and license plate issues accounted for another 44,333 tickets, and the data revealed all the tickets amounted to nearly $15.2 million in assessed penalties.

“When folks park on the street, it needs to be managed,” said J.P. Goates, deputy director of Salt Lake City Public Services.

Goates said compliance officers — currently 17 in t

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