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City of Davis Documents
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Program Closed Late 2014

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

Do you live in the South end of Alameda County or the North end of Santa Clara County - State Sen. Ellen Corbett's former District?

In late 2014 Sen. Corbett termed out, and was replaced by this person

R. A. Wieckowski, Author of the anti-motorist bill AB 666

who will be running for re-election in 2018 and 2022.

Please don't vote for him.

Send him back home to his bankruptcy law practice.

Davis Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Violations Recorded, Citations Issued, Affidavits Approved [4]

New 10-28-10, updated 2-19-15

Cam #
	First @ E Wbd	First @ E Wbd LEFT	First @ E Wbd RIGHT	Mace @ Chiles Ebd	Mace @ Chiles Ebd LEFT	Pole Line @ 5th Nbd	Pole Line @ 5th Nbd LEFT	Russell @ Syca- more Ebd	Russell @ Syca- more Ebd LEFT	[3]	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)
Jan13												176 61
Feb13												192 73
Mar13	42 2	75 19	4 0					92 32	29 3			243 56
Apr13												237 80
May13												254 73
Jun13												251 59
Jul13												261 64
Aug13												305 60
Sep13												337 68
Oct13	79 5	87 37	0 0					86 48	26 13			278 103
Nov13												225 86
Dec13												169 35
2013	520 30	1046 314	29 9					991 387	342 89			2928 829
Jan14 [11]												182 23
Feb14 [11]												182 23
Mar14 [11]												182 23
Apr14 [11]	44 2	71 11	0 0					52 9	16 2			182 23
May14												? ?
Jun14 [11]												277 62
Jul14 [11]												277 62
Aug14 [11]	59 4	118 24	93 32					7 1	0 0			277 62
Sep14
Oct14
Nov14
Dec14		C	L	O	S	E	D
2014												478 (proj.)
[8]	First @ E Wbd	First @ E Wbd LEFT	First @ E Wbd RIGHT	Mace @ Chiles Ebd	Mace @ Chiles Ebd LEFT	Pole Line @ 5th Nbd	Pole Line @ 5th Nbd LEFT	Russell @ Syca- more Ebd	Russell @ Syca- more Ebd LEFT	[3]

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

Official reports, 2005 -2006 Warning Period (Phase 1)
Official reports, 2005 -2006 Warning Period (Phase 2)
Official reports, 2006, Mar - Jun
Official reports, 2006
Official reports, 2007
Official reports, 2008
Official reports, 2009
Official reports, 2010
Official reports, 2011
Official reports, 2012
Official reports, early 2013
Official reports, 2013
Official reports, 2014

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 reports (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:
[11] In 2014 the City provided multi-month reports covering four months and three months. The location-by-location figures shown on the line for those reports are the figures from those reports, divided by the number of months covered by the report.

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
2013 Late Times
2013 Time of Day

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. (Program Closed Late 2014)

2005 Contract and 2009 Amendment

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

Invoices and check copies received in 2013 showed that the City was paying $2500 per month for each of the two cameras.

2014: Termination

In Late 2014 ATS asked the City to update its camera system and pay a higher monthly rent, and the City replied that instead, it wanted the system shut down and removed.
The City also stated that it would continue to withhold payment from ATS, because of the Prevailing Wage action (see Set # 7, below).

Newspaper Article

This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of Feb. 19, 2015

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.