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Some of San Leandro'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.

If you have a San Leandro red light camera ticket, be sure to look at the Countywide Information, on the Oakland Documents page.

San Leandro Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Total Violations, Notices Printed [4]

New 9-18-10, updated 2-24-13

Cam #	14DA 01	14FA 01	HAWA 01	HAWA 03	LEWA 01	MATE 01	Monthly Average of Notices Printed
	E. 14th Nbd @ Davis	Fair- mont Ebd @ E. 14th	Halcyon Wbd @ Wash- ington [6]	Floresta Ebd @ Wash- ington [6]	Lewel- ling Ebd @ Wash- ington	Marina Ebd @ Tea- garden									Total Citations Issued as % of Events Re- corded	Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed [1] [4]
Jan06	[5]						926
Feb06	[5]						926
6 Months Jan06-Jun06 [9]	490 150	209 69	3375 1366	3354 1462	- -	5114 2509	926								44%	12542 5556
Apr06	[5]						926
May06	[5]						926
Jun06	[5]						926
Jul06	[5]
Aug06
Sep06
Oct06
Nov06
Dec06

Jan07	[5]
Feb07
Mar07
Apr07
May07
Jun07								583
Jul07	[5]							583
Aug07								583
Sep07								583
Oct07								583
Nov07								583
Dec07								583

Jan08	[5]							583
Feb08								583
Mar08								583
Apr08								583
May08								583
Jun08								583
Jul08	[5]							583
Aug08								583
Sep08								583
Oct08								583
Nov08								583
36 Months Jun07-May10 [9]	4384 1443	6562 2565	9631 4598	21051 6999	907 275	10040 5108		583							40%	52265 20988

Jan09	[5]							583
Feb09								583
Mar09								583
Apr09								583
May09								583
Jun09								583
Jul09	[5]							583
Aug09								583
Sep09								583
Oct09								583
Nov09								583
Dec09								583

Jan10	[5]							583
Feb10								583
Mar10								583
Apr10								583	690
Average: 3 Months Apr-Jun10 [9]	437 127	963 402	1644 473	2888 594	51 7	876 468		583	690						30%	6832 2071
Jun10									690
Jul10	[5]
Aug10
Sep10
Oct10
Nov10
Dec10 [8]	97 30	257 121	284 75	430 150	13 4	257 144				524					39%	1338 524

2 Months Jan11-Feb11 [9]	176 66	457 197	570 208	862 338	- -	405 200					505				41%	2470 1009
Feb11											505
Mar11 [8]	86 20	188 52	278 82	502 143	- -	275 98						395			30%	1329 395
Apr11													446
May11													446
Jun11													446
6.4 Months Apr11-Oct11 [9] [11]	584 107	1439 568	2055 422	4421 960	- -	1877 708							446		27%	10376 2765
Aug11													446
Sep11													446
Oct11													446
N6v11
Dec11

Jan12														595
Feb12														595
Mar12														595
Apr12														595
9.7 Months Jan12-Oct12 [9] [11]	906 254	1633 680	2679 729	6661 1554		4895 2435								595	37%	16774 5652
Jun12														595
Jul12														595
Aug12														595
Sep12														595
Oct12														595
Nov12
Dec12
2012 [12]	968 279	1874 802	3187 923	8381 1989		6016 3151	595									20426 7144
Cam #	14DA 01	14FA 01	HAWA 01	HAWA 03	LEWA 01	MATE 01
[10]	E. 14th Nbd @ Davis	Fair- mont Ebd @ E. 14th	Halcyon Wbd @ Wash- ington [6]	Floresta Ebd @ Wash- ington [6]	Lewel- ling Ebd @ Wash- ington	Marina Ebd @ Tea- garden	avg	avg	avg	avg	avg	avg	avg	avg	Total Citations Issued as % of Events Re- corded	Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed [1] [4]

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

Official report, Apr. 1 - Jun. 30, 2010
Official report, Dec. 2010
Official report, Mar. 2011
Official reports, Jan. 2011 - Feb. 2011 and Apr. 2011 - Oct. 2011
Official reports, Jan. 2006 - Oct. 2012
Official report, 2012, full year

[ ] 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, 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 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).
[5] Calendar month data was requested on 9-18-10 but has not yet been received.
[6] The camera enforcement is believed to be on traffic on the first-named street, but the direction of enforcement (east, or west) has not yet been confirmed.
[7] Includes enforcement of posted "no turn on red" signs.
[8] From official report posted on City's website - see link in Docs Set # 4, below.

[9] City claimed not to have individual calendar-month reports available, so was asked to provide copies of the reports it had on hand.
[10] 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.

[11] This report was generated on the same day as the last day of the report period. To adjust for violations photographed but not yet ticketed, the reporting period used for averaging tickets issued was shortened by 0.2 month.
[12] These figures are from a report covering the full year, which was posted on the City's website in Feb. 2013.

San Leandro Docs Set # 2
"Late Time" Graphs

The City has refused to provide bar graphs for its cameras.

The picture above is an example from another city.

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

San Leandro Docs Set # 3
The Contracts

2005 Contract
2011 Contract (signed)
2011 Staff Report
2011 Minutes

On Sept. 6, 2005 the city council gave preliminary approval to a contract with RedFlex, for cameras at five intersections. The contract included an illegal "cost neutrality" clause, whereby the city would not have to pay RedFlex
the full rent if fine revenue was insufficient to cover the rent. See Subsection B. of Defect # 10.
The staff report prepared for the Sept. 6 council meeting also contained this remarkable sentence:

"Conclusion. Although San Leandro has not yet experienced a serious problem with traffic collisions directly related
to red light violations, the city is continuing to experience an increase in the overall amount of traffic flow throughout the community."

2011: New Contract

On Apr. 18, 2011 the city council heard public comments from four San Leandro residents who questioned the use of the cameras and none who supported the cameras (see Staff Report and Minutes, above), then voted 4 - 3 (ayes: Prola, Starosciak, Reed, Souza) to accept a new 8-year contact under which the City will pay $5200 monthly rent per camera for five of the six existing cameras. One camera is to be removed. Cost neutrality was replaced by "financial feasibility" - see Section 7.2 of the new contract.

They paid way too much.

They did not need to pay $5200 rent for the existing cameras. Nor did they need to agree to an eight-year term in order to get a good price. A number of California cities have renewed at around $3000 per month per existing camera, with much shorter terms. For example, Oceanside's five-year contract (available on the Oceanside Documents page) sets a $3052 rent for its four original cameras, and Hawthorne's three-year contract (available on the Hawthorne Documents page) sets a $2800 rent for its seven original cameras. If San Leandro had negotiated, or put the contract out to bid, it could have saved $2200 per month per camera, or $1,056,000 over the eight years of the contract.

Nor did the city council need to agree to pay $6300 for new cameras. A close-by example: Burlingame paid only $5870. Had the City negotiated to obtain the (optional) five new cameras for the same rate as Burlingame, it could have saved $206,000 over eight years.

Thus, the city council gave away $1,262,000 of City money, just because it failed to negotiate.

There is another problem with the contract. It contains no escape clause should a future city council wish to terminate the contract, or if the voters terminate the contract via initiative. A complete contract will include a formula by which the cost of such a "for convenience" termination is to be calculated. For an example of such a formula, see Section 6.2 in Victorville's original contract (available on the Victorville Documents page).

This list of contracts and amendments may not be up-to-date - there could be a contract or amendment later than the one listed above.

San Leandro Docs Set # 4
Info at PD Site

The police department's red light camera web page has extensive materials about the program - including business rules, guidelines, and as of Dec. 2, 2011, the official report showing the number of tickets issued in March 2011.

San Leandro Docs Set # 5
Encroachment Permits

Some of the City's cameras are located on CalTrans right-of-ways, so are operated under an encroachment permit obtained from CalTrans. HighwayRobbery.net obtained these documents from CalTrans, via a public records request.

Permit Application 2005, Issued 2006

Some other cities operate cameras under encroachment permits. For more information about those cities and about CalTrans' criteria for the issuance of an encroachment permit, see the CalTrans section on the Links page.

San Leandro Docs Set # 6
More Coming

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

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