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Davis, pop. 55,000, is 16 miles west of Sacramento.

Davis Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Violations Recorded, Citations Issued, Affidavits Approved [4]

New 10-28-10, updated 1-27-13

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Total
Cita-
tions
Issued
as %
of Events
Re-
corded

Total
Violations
Recorded/
Notices
Printed
[1] [4]

Aug05

Sep05

Oct05

Nov05

Dec05

2005

Jan06

[5]

Feb06

[5]

Mar06

[5]

Apr06

[5]

May06

[5]

Jun06

[5]

Jul06

[5]

Aug06

[5]

Sep06

[5]

Oct06

[5]

Nov06

[5]

Dec06

[5]

2006

256
106
(33)

674
281
(81)

97
5
(0)

952
97
(7)

32
4
(0)

35
6
(0)

747
207
(57)

261
116
(34)

3054
822
(212)

Jan07

[5]

Feb07

[5]

Mar07

[5]

Apr07

[5]

May07

[5]

Jun07

[5]

Jul07

[5]

Aug07

[5]

Sep07

[5]

Oct07

[5]

Nov07

[5]

Dec07

[5]

2007

342
88
(30)

813
363
(112)

16
11
(3)

118
11
(5)

730
176
(44)

75
28
(10)

93
19
(4)

960
265
(73)

209
33
(7)

3359
994
(288)

Jan08

[5]

Feb08

[5]

Mar08

[5]

Apr08

[5]

May08

[5]

Jun08

[5]

Jul08

[5]

Aug08

[5]

Sep08

[5]

Oct08

[5]

Nov08

[5]

Dec08

[5]

2008

232
44
(11)

807
393
(108)

28
8
(2)

42
4
(2)

48
3
(2)

81
24
(6)

83
11
(2)

912
296
(80)

99
34
(6)

2332
817
(219)

Jan09

15
2
(0)

45
17
(1)

1
0
(0)

7
1
(0)

1
0
(1)

2
2
(0)

8
1
(0)

34
14
(1)

10
4
(0)

123
42
(3)

Feb09

[5]

Mar09

[5]

Apr09

[5]

May09

[5]

Jun09

[5]

Jul09

14
3
(0)

56
26
(0)

0
0
(0)

89
49
(0)

6
2
(0)

165
79
(0)

Aug09

[5]

Sep09

[5]

Oct09

[5]

Nov09

[5]

Dec09

[5]

2009

220
41
(16)

661
323
(107)

5
1
(2)

11
1
(1)

3
1
(1)

14
6
(2)

16
4
(0)

851
468
(132)

131
52
(14)

1912
897
(275)

Jan10

10
2
(0)

43
22
(0)

0
0
(0)

67
36
(1)

4
3
(1)

124
63
(2)

Feb10

[5]

Mar10

[5]

Apr10

[5]

May10

[5]

Jun10

[5]

Jul10

7
1
(0)

37
10
(0)

2
0
(0)

77
39
(0)

7
1
(0)

130
51
(0)

Aug10

[5]

Sep10

[5]

Oct10

[10]

Nov10

[10]

Dec10

[10]

2010
(9 mos.)
[7]

116
32
(11)

421
189
(54)

7
0
(0)

640
359
(98)

216
32
(14)

1400
612
(177)

Jan11

[5]

108
44

Feb11

[5]

12
64

Mar11

[5]

112
59

Apr11

[5]

182
92

May11

[5]

156
73

Jun11

[5]

166
64

Jul11

[5]

160
72

Aug11

[5]

173
95

Sep11

[5]

213
105

Oct11

[5]

173
81

Nov11

[5]

136
77

Dec11

[5]

113
50

2011
[9]

201
67

719
344

13
3

679
391

203
93

1815
898
( 263)

Jan12

[5]

100
53

Feb12

[5]

114
42

Mar12

[5]

166
68

Apr12

[5]

165
54

May12

[5]

203
69

Jun12

[5]

229
65

Jul12

[5]

214
57

Aug12

[5]

267
76

Sep12

12
1

128
39

12
5

113
53

34
7

299
105

Oct12

[5]

241
64

Nov12

[5]

164
48

Dec12

[5]

164
60

2012
[9]

201
25

926
316

70
16

828
348

297
73

2322
778
(139)

[8]

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Pole
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Pole
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LEFT

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Russell
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[3]

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official monthly tabulations of citations actually issued.

Official tabulations, 2005 -2006 Warning Period (Phase 1)
Official tabulations, 2005 -2006 Warning Period (Phase 2)
Official tabulations, 2006, Mar - Jun
Official tabulations, 2006
Official tabulations, 2007
Official tabulations, 2008
Official tabulations, 2009
Official tabulations, 2010
Official tabulations, 2011
Official tabulations, 2012

The Davis cameras are operated by ATS, using Nestor software.

[ ] 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 Nestor calls Violations Recorded, 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 Nestor calls Citations Issued, and may be 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).
Any figures in blue type (and in parentheses) are what Nestor calls Affidavits Approved, which is believed to be
the number of real tickets and any Nominations (Snitch Tickets) where the initial recipient provided the identity of the driver.
[5] Intersection-by-intersection data for these months has been received but has not yet been posted to the table above, due to time limitations. It is available at the links given above.
[6] The info about the direction of enforcement (north, south, east, west, and right or left) was provided by the City.
[7] These figures cover a partial year.
[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.
[9] In the official tabulations (Nestor spreadsheets) the monthly figures for Citations Issued do not add up to the annual totals shown there (and posted here, in the yellow bar). We inquired as to why, but received a nonsense answer.
[10] Figures for this month were requested on:

Davis Docs Set # 2
"Late Time" Tables

The City provided tables of Late Times, etcetera, for all of its cameras.
These tables track violations recorded, and in parentheses, tickets issued.
Where there is a large number of long Late Time violations, it is believed to indicate heavy ticketing on right turns.

The picture above is an example of a portion of the table, from another city.

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

Late Time info is available for more than fifty other cities - see the list of cities in the expanded version of Defect # 9.

Davis Docs Set # 3
The Contract, Etc.

2005 Contract and 2009 Amendment

A July 2, 2012 Davis Enterprise article indicated that the City had modified the program.

This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of Jan. 10, 2013

Davis Docs Set # 4
Info on DPD Site

I cannot find any red light camera program info on the police department's website.

Davis Docs Set # 5
Are Late Times Secret?

Davis doesn't print the Late Time on their tickets, even though their Nestor system clearly has the capability to do so.

(From sample ticket at the end of a Nestor brochure.)

If you phone the DPD to ask what your Late Time was, they may insist that you come in to the police station.

Nearly every other city that I know of prints the Late Time somewhere on their tickets (even though it can be hard to read at times - see the big How to Read Your Late Time box in Defect # 7 on the Home page). Davis' motive not to display it could be so that they can cite for very short Late Times (like 0.1 second) without a public uproar (including criticism by judges) about "Mickey Mouse" tickets. Another possible motive could be to grind you down, make it harder for you to fight your ticket.

If you want to know what your late time is, I suggest that you call any of the following at the City:
The Mayor
The Police Chief
The Police Department Non-Emergency Line
Alternately, you could submit a Discovery letter to get a copy of the violation video, then review that frame-by-frame, on your home computer. See Getting Records for how to do a Discovery.