San Rafael Docs - Main Page - Red Light Cams

Some of San Rafael'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.

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

Source Docs: Official reports, Sep. 2009 to May 2010
Official statistics, 18 Months, Nov. 2009 to Apr. 2011 [8]
Official reports, 2010 to 2012
Official reports, 2012 to 2013
Official report, Jul. - Sep. 2013
Official reports, late 2013 to Jan. 2014

[ ] indicates a footnote.
[1] Totals are as provided by the City.
[2] Annual total, or annual projection, is by highwayrobbery.net.
[3] Un-used columns are to allow for later expansion of City's system.
[4] 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] 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] For this 18-month period, the statistics compiled by the City - see link above - show that during the period there were 2252 right turn violations recorded by the cameras and between 2842 and 5372 left turn violations, making turning violations represent between 51% and 76% of the total. (Please note that these statistics are of violations recorded, not citations issued.)

San Rafael 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.

3IR-01 Dec. 2009
3IR-01 Apr. 2010

IR3-01 Dec. 2009 (not yet received)
IR3-01 Apr. 2010

July 2012

Summer 2013

Late 2013

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

2012 Grand Jury Report
If you would like to read some grand jury reports from other counties, about their red light cameras, see the Grand Jury entry in the Site Index.

A staff report from May 2013 revealed that 78% of the tickets went to visitors.

San Rafael Docs Set # 4
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, 2010
Justification Correspondence (Traffic Report), 2010

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 Rafael Docs Set # 5
Signal Timing

In late 2013 we received information about the length of the yellows.

San Rafael Docs Set # 6
Prevailing Wage Action

RedFlex's construction work in San Rafael was the subject of a Prevailing Wage action by the California Department of Industrial Relations.

San Rafael Docs Set # 7
More Coming

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

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