City of El Cajon Documents

El Cajon, pop. 95,000, is an eastern suburb of San Diego.

Some of El Cajon's tickets can be ignored.  If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is a fake, what I call a "Snitch Ticket."  For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page and Set # 1, below.

The El Cajon cameras are shut off but could come back on in Sept. 2013.  See Set # 4, below.   

El Cajon Docs Set # 1
  Fake / SnitchTicket, a.k.a. "Nomination"

(If you haven't already done so, please read the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.)

Here is the front and back of one of the clever fake/phishing/Snitch Tickets El Cajon sends out to some motorists.  Snitch Tickets can be ignored.  You are not required to provide information to the police, even though the instructions (circled by me) on the back of the fake ticket say, "You are to...."

Also note the "do not call the court" language (circled) on the back side of the fake ticket.  A Snitch Ticket will have that phrase, and it will not have the address of the Superior Court.

For similar Notices, see the Vista Documents or the Encinitas Documents pages.

Front of Fake/Snitch Ticket:
 

El Cajon Docs Set # 2
Ticket Counts

Total Violations, Notices Printed [4]

El Cajon Docs Set # 3
"Late Time" Graphs

  The City provided bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera, for all of its cameras.
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.)



The picture above is an example from another city.

July 2003 and July 2012

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

El Cajon Docs Set # 4
Contract, Etc. (Program Closing?)

The five-year renewal of the Redflex contract approved by the city council in July 2009 reduced the stated monthly fee per existing camera from the previous $5370 to a new fee of $4300.  The staff report  said that two of the nine existing cameras would be provided at no cost to the City, so the effective fee per existing camera will be $3344.  New cameras will cost $6200 each.

Had the council negotiated to obtain a $2829 fee like that obtained in Aug. 2008 by the City of South Gate, it could have saved an additional $515 per camera per month, or $278,100 for the nine cameras over the 60 months of the contract.  (Like the El Cajon contract, the South Gate contract calls for two cameras at no cost.)

Or, had the council negotiated a $2500 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Davis, it could have saved $455,760.

Or, had the council negotiated a $2225 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Solana Beach, it could have saved $604,260.

El Cajon's contracts:
Full contract, 2002:  $89 per citation
1st Amendment, 2004:  $6300 per camera
2nd Amendment, 2005:  $5370 per camera
3rd Amendment, 2007:  Extended to June 2009
New contract, 2009:  $4300 per camera, $3344 effective

Cameras Shut Off (Temporarily?)

On Feb. 26, 2013 the City Council voted to shut the cameras off, immediately, for a six-month study period.
The cameras were shut off on the 27th.
We recommend that during the study period the City should try some Alternatives to cameras.

This list of El Cajon contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of Dec. 10, 2012.

El Cajon Docs Set # 5
More Coming

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

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