Mapping parking enforcement
in Spokane, WA

Spokane, WA publishes parking citation data through an online AIMS (Automated Issuance Management System) portal at parkspokane.aimsparking.com where anyone can look up a citation by its number.

Our scraper checks for new citations every few minutes by querying the expected sequence numbers for each enforcement device. When new citations are found, they get geocoded and stored in a database, and appear on the live map in real-time via WebSocket push.

No personally identifiable information (PII) is stored. License plate numbers and VINs are explicitly stripped before any data enters our database. We only store publicly available citation details: location, time, violation type, fine amount, and vehicle make/model/color.

All data comes from Spokane, WA's public AIMS portal. Parking citation data is public record. We scrape at a low rate with a descriptive User-Agent header to be respectful of city infrastructure.