Daly City Docs - Main Page - Red Light Cams

Some of Daly City's tickets can possibly be ignored. If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is what I call a "Snitch Ticket." For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

If you have a ticket from Daly City - even one you already have paid - be sure to read the "San Mateo County Information," which is Docs Set # 4 on the San Mateo Documents page - and contact me!

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official reports provided by the City under the California Public Records Act.

Official report, Mar. 2008
Official report, Apr. 2008
Official reports, 2008 - 2010
Official reports, 2011 - 2012
Official reports, 2012 - 2013

[ ] indicates a footnote.
[1] Totals are as provided by the City.
[2] YTD = Year-to-date total.
[3] Un-used columns are to allow for later expansion of City's system.
[4] Any figures in red type (or, if you are looking at this table in black and white, the upper figure when there are two or more figures in a cell) are what RedFlex calls Total Violations, or all incidents recorded by the cameras, and due to time limitations may have been posted here only for selected months or locations. If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months will be posted. The figures in black type are what RedFlex calls Notices Printed, and represent the sum of genuine citations issued (those filed with the court) plus any Nominations mailed (not filed with the court, a.k.a. Snitch Tickets).
[5] Monthly data has been requested but has not yet been received.
[6] The camera enforcement is believed to be on traffic on the first-named street, but the direction of enforcement (north, south, east, west, thru, left, right) is not yet available.
[7] Includes enforcement of posted "no turn on red" signs.
[8] The title bar has been repeated solely for the convenience of the reader - there is no difference between it and the one at the top of the table.

Daly City Docs Set # 2
"Late Time" Graphs

The City provided bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera, at four intersections.
These graphs track violations recorded, not tickets issued.
Where there is a large number of long Late Time violations in a curb lane, it is believed to indicate heavy ticketing on right turns.
(The curb lane will be the lane with the highest lane number.)

Grand Terrace late times bar chart

The picture above is an example from another city.

17 months up to July 2009

Jan 2009

July 2009

HIGE July 2010
JDSH July 2010
JSWA July 2010
SPJS July 2010

July 2012

Bar graphs are available for more than fifty other cities - see the list in the expanded version of Defect # 9.

Daly City Docs Set # 3
2009 & 2011: Successful Appeals

In Dec. 2009 and Jun. 2011 defendants won appeals on the cost neutrality issue. P. v. Lopez, P. v. Chew.
In response, the City revised its contract, as did San Mateo after its loss in P. v. Bullock.

In Mar. 2007 the city council approved a contract, in which they agreed to pay RedFlex $6000 per month, per camera, for five years.

The contract included an illegal "cost neutrality" clause, whereby the City did not have to pay RedFlex the full rent if there weren't enough fines to cover the cost. See Subsection B. of Defect # 10.

The contract also says: Definitions. "Warning Period" means the period of thirty (30) days after the Installation Date of the first intersection approach. (Emphasis added.) See Defect # 6.

The contract was due to expire in a few months, so on Dec. 10, 2012 we wrote to the City Council, suggesting that if they decided to renew the contract, they should not agree to pay more than $3000 per camera, per month.
To see a list of cities that pay less than $3000, go to FAQ # 17.

On Jan. 14, 2013 the City Council approved, without discussion, a contract amendment in which they agreed to pay $5520, which when compared to a $3000 target price means the City will overpay by $604,800 over the five-year term, enough money to purchase and equip a dozen new patrol cars.

The amendment does not include an escape clause.

There may be some more Daly City information posted in the next few weeks. Mark your calendar to remind you to come back here and look!

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