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Redding Documents

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 1-16-13

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

Official reports, 2007 - 2010
Official reports, 2011 - 2012
Official reports, 2012
Official reports, 2008 - 2012

[  ] 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]  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 was requested on:
[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.

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

MALA 2008
MALA 2010

MASH 2008
MASH 2010

PITE 2008
PITE 2010

SHMA 2008
SHMA 2010

All cameras, 2012

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

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), 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  in 2011, and in June 2012 renewed the contract for five years. 
 
The city council agreed to pay $4500 per camera, which is way too high.  By failing to negotiate, the council wasted $630,000, compared to a $3000 target price.  See FAQ # 17.

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

This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of Jan. 16, 2013.

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.

Redding Docs Set # 5
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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