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Some of Redding'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.

Redding Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Total Violations, Notices Printed [4]

New 11-12-10, updated 3-12-20

Cam #	CCCY -01	CYBE -01	CYBE -03	MALA -01	MASH -01	PITE -01	SHMA -01	CYHI -01	HICY -01
	Churn Creek & Cypress [4] [6]	Cypress & Bechelli [4] [6]	Cypress & Bechelli [4] [6]	Market & Lake [4] [6]	Market & Shasta [4] [6]	Pine & Tehama [4] [6]	Shasta & Market [4] [6]	Cypress & Hilltop [4] [6] [11]	Hilltop & Cypress [4] [6] [11]	[3]	Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed (Excluding Cypress & Hilltop) Per Official Monthly CMR Reports [1] [4]	Total Notices Printed as % of Violations Recorded	Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed Per Official Monthly CMR Reports [1] [4]	Total Citations Issued/ Rolling Right Citations Per CVC 21455.5(i) Annual Reports [12]	Revenue from Court (thou- sands) [14]
Aug07
Sep07	0 0	214 118	174 101	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0						388 219
Oct07	0 0	167 69	120 72	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0						287 141
Nov07	0 0	178 99	139 85	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0						317 184
Dec07	0 0	157 88	158 114	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0						315 202
2007
Jan08	0 0	137 69	139 98	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0						276 167
Feb08
Mar08													775 454
Apr08													753 465
May08													779 438
Jun08
Jul08	115 45	99 54	73 17	0 0	329 189	0 0	91 22						707 327
Aug08
Sep08													569 266
Oct08													554 351
Nov08													472 292
Dec08
2008 [2]													4140 (proj.)
Jan09	31 13	71 45	34 25	95 62	272 165	0 0	79 38						582 348
Feb09													594 343
Mar09													1931 858
Apr09													1369 621
May09													1177 558
Jun09													1095 519
Jul09	33 12	89 52	41 30	608 218	200 123	91 27	81 29						1143 491
Aug09													1155 475
Sep09													1179 599
Oct09													1028 514
Nov09													785 440
Dec09													637 328
2009 [2]												48%	12675 6094
Jan10	15 8	67 38	33 19	229 102	153 109	98 76	72 26						667 378
Feb10													620 355
Mar10													728 421
Apr10													730 444
May10													750 445
Jun10													723 391
Jul10	37 15	126 77	31 19	221 75	222 139	120 77	76 17						833 419
Aug10													860 493
Sep10	27 14	87 60	45 24	189 76	192 129	85 60	92 26						717 389
Oct10													666 356
Nov10													624 339
Dec10													604 339
2010 [2]												56%	8522 4769
Jan11	18 8	50 28	27 18	164 70	112 71	110 84	70 19						551 301
Feb11													494 297
Mar11													612 374
Apr11													664 333
May11													675 329
Jun11													664 334
Jul11	28 20	122 65	44 19	256 102	151 96	98 64	92 26						791 392
Aug11													787 426
Sep11													783 420
Oct11													638 374
Nov11													484 295
Dec11													555 349
2011 [2]												55%	7698 4224
Jan12	20 4	66 41	36 28	99 36	71 45	70 52	77 25						439 231
Feb12	28 10	100 66	25 15	23 6	66 42	55 31	84 37						381 207
Mar12	32 19	92 64	45 33	32 10	100 57	48 32	96 30						445 245
Apr12	40 23	167 120	60 40	109 62	137 97	47 39	84 28						644 409
May12	32 24	192 137	67 39	211 106	139 85	58 43	122 55						821 489
Jun12	43 21	196 133	69 36	237 102	132 73	68 46	111 44						856 455
Jul12	23 14	173 120	77 51	193 88	187 131	53 33	102 37						808 474
Aug12	27 14	196 131	71 53	254 121	201 135	59 33	82 20						890 507
Sep12	27 8	170 132	50 38	174 84	168 129	65 45	93 29						747 465
Oct12													661 399
Nov12													642 432
Dec12													627 386
2012 [2]												59%	7961 4699
Jan13													667 456
Feb13													664 409
Mar13													700 409
Apr13													750 448
May13													795 424
Jun13	37 15	137 95	79 54	233 125	195 130	41 27	51 13						773 459
Jul13													862 445
Aug13													764 378
Sep13													722 382
Oct13													744 419
Nov13													672 398
Dec13													639 336
2013 [2]												57%	8752 4963	2740 1124
Jan14													639 344
Feb14													556 279
Mar14	41 16	157 95	66 42	179 90	134 88	44 18	46 21						667 370
Apr14													658 369
May14	48 21	165 103	70 43	257 150	185 128	27 12	72 32						824 488
Jun14													746 374
Jul14													697 325
Aug14													592 320
Sep14													582 325
Oct14													588 364
Nov14	34 12	102 73	56 42	217 126	42 26	18 13	32 10	0 0	0 0				501 302
Dec14	38 12	118 81	54 43	167 88	53 34	52 27	57 16	0 0	0 0				539 301
2014 [1]	480 149	1693 1101	745 488	2523 1298	1198 756	405 182	549 187	0 0	0 0			55%	7593 4161	2538 1114
Jan15	30 9	124 85	77 64	221 121	77 44	70 43	58 14	0 0	0 0				657 380
Feb15	20 4	115 71	62 42	205 115	64 47	64 47	64 20	0 0	0 0				594 346
Mar15	54 23	156 108	55 38	220 109	82 55	100 62	62 18	5 5	48 37		729 413		782 455
Apr15 [11]	48 13	113 74	71 46	217 97	98 57	94 58	50 14	716 416	3345 2444		691 359		4752 3219
May15	0 0	150 80	82 48	232 109	78 43	125 67	82 18	675 315	3000 1185		749 365		4424 1865
Jun15	0 0	135 66	80 39	259 88	83 49	98 48	70 10	449 242	1281 635		725 300		2455 1177
Jul15	0 0	158 94	91 63	274 111	118 69	112 55	50 9	400 233	1154 751		803 401		2357 1385		58
Aug15	0 0	143 88	98 69	267 107	141 77	121 56	97 12	508 319	1347 892		867 409		2722 1620		69
Sep15	0 0	133 83	64 47	200 80	98 60	137 60	78 11	413 250	766 491		710 341		1889 1082		78
Oct15	0 0	125 76	70 46	189 91	75 42	112 56	80 16	501 290	1277 830		651 327		2429 1447		76
Nov15	0 0	99 55	43 25	157 74	105 69	100 56	66 5	290 186	996 629		570 284		1856 1099		64
Dec15		108 72	44 30	175 88	86 58	119 76	61 12	292 191	864 529		593 336		1749 1056		84
2015 [2]	152 49	1559 952	837 557	2616 1190	1105 670	1252 684	818 159	4249 2447	14078 8423		8339 4261	57%	26666 15131	8792 6770
Jan16		91 61	57 36	24 13	105 62	69 33	79 7	278 173	740 457		425 212		1443 842
Feb16													1567 913
Mar16		124 78	49 28	25 10	159 98	128 59	103 9	343 204	894 578		588 282		1825 1064
Apr16		134 69	71 49	21 8	168 93	187 89	104 7	497 378	1024 679		685 315		2206 1372
May16		130 69	64 29	33 6	167 84	198 98	113 10	283 172	1084 688		705 296		2072 1156
Jun16		146 68	64 31	21 9	167 77	155 71	68 4	182 109	1187 694		621 260		1990 1063
Jul16													1901 912		67
Aug16													1777 883		70
Sep16													2005 1117		64
Oct16													1742 1049		61
Nov16													1559 1005		56
Dec16													1690 1032		56
2016 [2]	0 0	1500 828 (proj.)	732 415 (proj.)	298 110 (proj.)	1838 994 (proj.)	1769 840 (proj.)	1121 89 (proj.)	3799 2486 (proj.)	11830 7430 (proj.)		7258 3276 (proj.)	57%	21777 12408 (actual)	6472 4612
Jan17		84 53	48 32	19 3	158 97	166 91	74 5	209 118	668 418		549 281		1426 817		63
Feb17													1187 748		54
Mar17		120 82	66 40	34 15	167 98	188 103	53 3	276 169	805 546		628 341		1709 1056		68
Apr17													1885 1059		62
May17		159 100	75 44	26 12	185 91	149 72	59 8	327 172	930 549		653 327		1910 1048		64
Jun17													978 516		60
Jul17		160 93	100 61	42 5	118 45	132 69	42 4	225 81	284 116		594 277		1103 474		44
Aug17													2036 1011		50
Sep17													1657 916		36
Oct17													1727 1090		47
Nov17													1417 985		49
Dec17													1420 1058		45
2017 [1]		1586 983	866 561	381 101	1787 1045	1767 950	591 91	2813 1437	8668 5610		6978 3731	58%	18459 10778	5089 3292
Jan18		90 62	58 41	19 9	121 94	98 61	61 19	150 104	605 462		447 286		1202 852		54
Feb18		102 81	66 39	34 12	114 79	187 125	40 11	206 140	696 504		543 347		1445 991		53
Mar18		140 105	71 48	22 9	129 95	303 192	60 27	244 160	772 559		725 476		1741 1195		68
Apr18		153 107	75 51	25 11	132 94	306 216	55 9	259 192	794 547		746 488		1799 1227		52
May18		147 92	122 79	30 12	155 101	320 204	62 21	274 178	890 614		836 509		2000 1301		58
Jun18 [13]		171 109	102 73	36 12	141 83	294 177	53 10	279 154	970 678		797 464		2046 1294
Jul18		192 118	100 68	45 11	113 67	231 111	26 4	238 125	943 622		707 379		1888 1126
Aug18		122 71	92 61	32 15	140 77	192 122	45 10	310 188	913 589		623 356		1846 1133
Sep18		107 28	39 14	11 3	50 12	79 22	32 1	112 27	309 93		318 80		739 200
Oct18		243 152	77 60	31 12	156 113	209 145	77 16	324 211	842 589		793 498		1959 1298
Nov18		212 137	92 57	24 8	104 77	192 136	82 24	287 189	816 569		706 439		1809 1197
Dec18		167 111	101 80	30 12	72 54	201 155	62 22	270 171	677 522		633 434		1580 1127
2018 [2]		1846 1173	995 671	339 126	1427 946	2612 1666	655 174	2953 1839	9227 6348		7874 4756	65%	20054 12941	8088 5049
Jan19													1416 915
Feb19													1298 791
Mar19													1707 1113
Apr19													1815 1182
May19		179 105	92 57	39 11	143 99	232 150	88 28	304 181	975 710		773 450		2052 1341
Jun19													2005 1184
Jul19													1972 1159
Aug19													1803 1137
Sep19		186 106	92 62	31 9	218 155	206 117	66 25	277 160	847 599		799 474		1923 1233
Oct19													1941 1275
Nov19													1741 1140
Dec19													1454 988
2019 [1]		1874 1218	1044 678	323 105	1701 1039	2617 1596	943 303	3209 1889	9400 6630		8502 4939	64%	21111 13458
Jan20
Feb20
Mar20
Apr20
May20
Jun20
Jul20
Aug20
Sep20
Oct20
Nov20
Dec20
2020 [1]
Cam #	CCCY -01	CYBE -01	CYBE -03	MALA -01	MASH -01	PITE -01	SHMA -01	CYHI -01	HICY -01
[9]	Churn Creek & Cypress [4] [6]	Cypress & Bechelli [4] [6]	Cypress & Bechelli [4] [6]	Market & Lake [4] [6]	Market & Shasta [4] [6]	Pine & Tehama [4] [6]	Shasta & Market [4] [6]	Cypress & Hilltop [4] [6] [11]	Hilltop & Cypress [4] [6] [11]	[3]	Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed (Excluding Cypress & Hilltop) Per Official Monthly CMR Reports [1] [4]	Total Notices Printed as % of Violations Recorded	Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed Per Official Monthly CMR Reports [1] [4]	Total Citations Issued/ Rolling Right Citations Per CVC 21455.5(i) Annual Reports [12]	Revenue from Court (thou- sands) [14]

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

[ ] indicates a footnote.
[1] Totals are as provided by the City.
[2] These annual totals, or annual projections, are by highwayrobbery.net. The 2016 projections are based upon the data visible in the table above.
[3] Un-used columns are to allow for later expansion of City's system.
[4] Except where noted otherwise, the figures given in the table are for the single calendar month indicated. 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. 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). Due to time limitations data may have been posted to the table only for selected months or locations. If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months or locations will be posted. Full official data has been received and is available at one of the links given above.
[5] Monthly data has been requested.
[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] Official data has been received, is available at the last link above, but due to time constraints has not yet been fully posted to the table above.
[9] 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.
[10] The report for this month was generated before the end of the month, so does not reflect the full number of tickets issued.
[11] See Set # 3, below, for the financial impact of the heavy ticketing at Cypress/Hilltop.
[12] From the annual reports required, beginning with 2013, by CVC 21455.5(i). They become available by the Fall of the following year.
[13] The official report for this month was generated shortly after the end of the month. As a result, many violations were still "in progress" and the eventual number of "approved violations" would be expected to be greater than the number shown in the official report. Before being posted in the table above, the figures given in the official report were adjusted by assuming that the "in progress" violations would be approved in the same proportion as violations were approved during the previous calendar year.
[14] Sample months. See Set # 3, below.

Redding Docs Set # 2
"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.

CCCY 2008
CCCY2010

CYBE-01 2008
CYBE-01 2010

CYBE-03 2008
CYBE-03 2010

All cameras, Mar. 2015

Cypress/Hilltop, Apr. & May 2015

All cameras, July 2015

All cameras, June 2016

All cameras, June 2017

All cameras, June 2018

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

Redding Docs Set # 3
The Contract - Bonanza for RedFlex in 2015, Extended in 2017 to Year 2021

2007 Contract
2009 Amendment

The 2007 contract (approved 4 - 1 by Dickerson, Murray, Stegall and Bosetti, with Jones voting "no") includes an illegal "cost neutrality" clause, whereby the city does not have to pay RedFlex the full rent if there aren't enough fines to cover the cost. See Subsection B. of Defect # 10.
In 2009 the contract was amended (approved 4 - 1 by Dickerson, McArthur, Stegall and Bosetti, with Jones voting "no") but cost neutrality was retained.

The Sept. 2011 decision in P. v. Daugherty said that cost neutral contracts like Redding's are illegal, a violation of CVC 21455.5(g), (as of 2013, 21455.5(h)) and gave Redding an opportunity to cancel the program, immediately, without paying an early-termination penalty. The city council did not take advantage of that opportunity.

On June 3, 2012 highwayrobbery.net wrote to the city council, suggesting that they negotiate for a better price.

On June 5, 2012 the city council approved the renewal of the contract for five years (approved 3 - 1 by McArthur, Sullivan and Bosetti, with Jones voting "no" and Dickerson absent), and agreed to pay $4500 rent per camera, which was way too high. By failing to negotiate, the council will overpay by $630,000, compared to a $3000 target price. To cover that extra rent, the City will need to issue an extra 6300 tickets (assuming that the City receives $100 of revenue from each ticket issued). Also see FAQ # 17.

The contract has no escape clause (Termination for Convenience), something commonly found in other cities' contracts.

2015: Bonanza for RedFlex

The heavy ticketing from the new installation at Cypress/Hilltop brought in a lot of fine money to the City, but the City had to send nearly all of it to RedFlex, to pay down the $327,000 balance the City owed RedFlex because of the cost neutral terms of the contract.
The City's tally sheets (below) show that the balance was paid down to zero by Spring 2016.

Official Account Tally as of Mid-2015
Official Account Tally as of Late 2015
Official Account Tally as of Late 2016
Official Account Tally as of Mid-2017
Official Account Tally as of Mid-2018

May 2017: Contract Extension to 2021

The staff report prepared for the meeting of May 16 recommended that the program be extended for another four years, at $4375 per camera per month, 3% lower than the price the City had been paying.

We wrote to the council - before the meeting - pointing out that the target price should be about half of that, based upon the price schedule the City of Elk Grove negotiated with RedFlex, and that if they agreed to pay $4375 they would overpay by $700,800 during the four years of the proposed extension.

Scan from the March 2014 contract between RedFlex and Elk Grove, California, which has five cameras

The Redding council voted 5 - 0 to renew the contract at the $4375 price, with no escape clause.
Signed Amendment

Article Article

This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of May 16, 2017.

Redding Docs Set # 4
Info on RPD Site

There is program info, including a link to signal timing sheets, at the police department's website. Timing sheets will also be available in Set # 6, below.

Redding Docs Set # 5
Guidelines and Business Rules

These are the City's guidelines (required by CVC 21455.5(c)(1)) and controls (required by CVC 21455.5(c)(2)(f)), for the processing and issuance of tickets.

Guidelines and Controls as of 2015

Guidelines and Controls as of 2018

Redding Docs Set # 6
Length of Yellow: Signal Timing and Speed Surveys

Signal Timing and Speed Surveys: Coming Soon

Redding Docs Set # 7

Mickey Mouse Tickets (Mostly Right Turns) & Mostly to Visitors

Ticketing in 2015 was more than triple the ticketing in 2014.
An official report showed that in 2017, 65% of the City's tickets were for right turns - up from 44% in 2014.
In May 2016 a report prepared by RedFlex for another customer disclosed that 57% of Redding's tickets go to visitors.

Redding Docs Set # 8
More Coming

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

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