Newark Documents

Some of Newark's "tickets" can possibly be ignored.  If your ticket does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is a fake ticket, what I call a "Snitch Ticket."  For more details, see Docs Set # 7 (below) and the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

If you have a Newark red light camera ticket, please be sure to contact me.

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

  Wieckowski, Author of the anti-motorist bills SB 246,  SB 1 and AB 666

In March 2020 please don't vote for him for Supervisor.

Send him back home to his bankruptcy law practice.

As of 2019 he still is in the State Legislature in Sacramento and was the author of SB 246 of 2019 (had it passed it would have added a 10% tax to each barrel of oil).
He was co-author of SB 1 which raised gas tax and car registration fees beginning Nov. 2017 and which was the subject of an attempted repeal, by Prop. 6 on the Nov. 2018 ballot. 
In 2013 he was the author of AB-666 which - had it passed - would have increased the number of red light camera tickets. 
Before reaching the Legislature he was a member of the Fremont City Council, and during his time on the council he approved two extensions of Fremont's contract with RedFlex:  He was the maker of the 2005 motion to extend the contract to 2010, and in 2010 he made the motion to extend the contract to June 2017.

Newark Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Total Violations, Notices Printed [4]

Newark Docs Set # 2
"Late Time" Graphs

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 City has provided bar graphs for a 12-month period in 2009 & 2010, plus July 2007, 2010, and 2011.
See the links, below.


The picture above is an example from another city.

CEMO-01 Jul07
CEMO-01 Jul10
CEMO-01  Nov09 - Oct10
CEMO-01 Jul11
CEMO-01 Jan12
CEMO-01 Jul12

CHMO-01 Jul07
CHMO-01 Jul10
CHMO-01  Nov09 - Oct10
CHMO-01 Jul11
CHMO-01 Jan12
CHMO-01 Jul12

MOCE-01 Jul07
MOCE-01 Jul10
MOCE-01  Nov09 - Oct10
MOCE-01 Jul11
MOCE-01 Jan12
MOCE-01 Jul12

NEJA-01 Jul07
NEJA-01 Jul10
NEJA-01  Nov09 - Oct10

NEJA-03 Jul07
NEJA-03 Jul10
NEJA-03  Nov09 - Oct10
NEJA-03 Jul11
NEJA-03 Jan12
NEJA-03 Jul12

All cameras, Dec12

All cameras, Jul13

All cameras, Jan15

All cameras, Oct15

All cameras, Jun17

All cameras, Mar18

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

Newark Docs Set # 3
Signal Timing Charts

In Aug. 2010 the City provided signal timing charts (and the April - June 2010 ticket counts shown in the table above).

Newark Docs Set # 4
The Contract - Paying Way Too Much

2006 Contract
2010 Amendment
2011 Renewal (16MB file)
2011 Renewal, signed

Until a Jan. 20, 2010 amendment, the 2006 contract included an illegal "cost neutrality" clause, whereby the city did not have to pay RedFlex the full rent if the City's fine revenue was insufficient to cover the rent. See Subsection B. of Defect # 10. 

2011:  New Contract

With a new contract looming, on Apr. 12, 2011 highwayrobbery.net wrote to the city council, suggesting that they negotiate for a better price.

On Apr. 14, 2011 the city council voted 5 - 0 to accept a new 5-year contact under which the City will pay $5700 monthly rent per camera for four cameras.  The camera covering northbound Newark/Jarvis was removed. Over the five years the City will overpay $648,000 for the existing cameras (when compared with a $3000 target price).  To cover that extra rent, the City will need to issue an extra 6480 tickets (assuming that the City receives $100 of revenue from each ticket issued).  Also see FAQ # 17.
(Invoices showed that in March and April 2013 the City paid $5864 for each of four cameras.)

The new contract also provides for up to six new cameras, with a monthly rent of $6200, which is too high. A close-by example:  Burlingame paid only $5870.  Over the five years Newark will overpay $118,800 for the new cameras (when compared to Burlingame's price).

The Newark contracts may also be available at the NPD website - see Set # 5, below.

This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of Jan. 2020.

Newark Docs Set # 5
Info on NPD Site

The Newark PD has extensive materials on its website, including copies of the contracts (see Exh. 1 of the Court Discovery Documents on the site).
If the above link ceases to work, drill down: www.newark.org > Departments > Police > Administrative (or, Traffic).

Newark Docs Set # 6
Mickey Mouse Tickets - Mostly Right Turns

An official report showed that in 2014, 92% of the City's tickets were for right turns.  That is the second highest percentage of right turns in the State of California.
(The rightmost column in Set # 1 above tracks right turn citations.)

Here is a video of a technical violation - making full stop just beyond the limit line - at a Newark intersection.

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