Santa Clarita Docs - Main Page - Red Light Cams

It may be possible to completely ignore a Santa Clarita ticket.
1. If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is a fake ticket, which I call a "Snitch Ticket." For more details about Snitch Tickets, see the Snitch Ticket section at the top of the Your Ticket page.
2. The LA County Superior Court does not report ignored red light camera tickets to the DMV. More info is in "Countywide Information," which is Docs Set # 2 on the LA County Documents page.

Total Violations Recorded (in red type), Notices Printed, Left Turn Violations Recorded [1] [4] [10]

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

2004 - 2007 Reports
2008 Reports
2009 Reports
2010 Reports
2010 - 2011 Reports
2011 - 2012 Reports
Fall 2012 Reports
More 2011 - 2012 Reports
Winter 2012 Reports
2012 - 2013 Reports

[ ] 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] 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 Recorded, 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 may 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] 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] These figures are for the 30-day warning ticket period, July 8 to Aug. 6, 2004.
[9] These figures cover Aug. 7 to Sept. 15, 2004.
[10] Total Violations Recorded for the first quarter (Jan. 1 - Mar. 31) of 2010, calculated using Set # 4, below. The figures in blue type (or, if you are looking at this table in black and white, the figures below the notation for footnote ten) are Total Violations Recorded for left turns only, and also were calculated using Set # 4, below. The data for Notices Printed (citatitions issued) is presented month-by-month.
[11] Speed limits and length of yellow light, from City publication received Apr. 5, 2010.
[12] 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.
[13] The report for this month was generated just a few days after the end of the month, so it is likely that not all tickets (for violations which occurred during the month) had been approved and counted by that time.

City of Santa Clarita Docs Set # 2
Interview

Here is an interview of the sheriffs who operate the cameras in Santa Clarita.

City of Santa Clarita Docs Set # 3
Contract Renewal in 2009

The new five-year Redflex contract renewal the city signed in early 2009 set the monthly fee per existing camera at $4000.

Had the council negotiated a $2900 fee like that in the 2007 contract of the City of Garden Grove, it could have saved $1100 per camera per month, or $726,000 for the eleven cameras over the 60 months of the contract.

Or, had the council negotiated a $2500 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Davis, it could have saved $990,000.

Or, had the council negotiated a $2225 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Solana Beach, it could have saved $1,171,500.

Santa Clarita's 2009 renewal contains the following clause:

"Financial Feasibility"

"Based on general accepted accounting principles should the Customer and Redflex determine that the program is not financially feasible to maintain under the current pricing per this agreement then the Customer and Redflex shall enter into negotiations to adjust the pricing."
(From Exhibit "D" to the 2009 contract.)

The Documents:

Original Contract, 2003
Staff Report for 2009 Renewal
2009 Renewal
Evaluations

Invoices received in 2013 show that the City is continuing to pay $4000 per camera.

As of May 17, 2013 the 2009 renewal was the most recent contract.

City of Santa Clarita Docs Set # 4
"Late Time" Graphs

The City provided bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera, for ten cameras.
These bar graphs track Total Violations Recorded, not tickets issued.
All of these intersections have at least two left turn lanes, which in these bar graph reports are designated as Lane 1 and Lane 2.
The data from the 2010 bar graphs shows that 96% of all violations were for left turns, and that 74% of all violations would not have occurred if the yellow times had been 1 second longer or if there had been a 1 second grace period in effect. Flipping the numbers over, we would expect that if Santa Clarita removed that hypothetical extra second, there would be a four-fold increase in violations.

Grand Terrace late times bar chart

The picture above is an example from another city.

BCNR-01 July 08
BCNR-01 July 09
BCNR-01 1st Qtr. 2010

BCSC-01 July 08
BCSC-01 July 09
BCSC-01 1st Qtr. 2010

MMMB-01 July 08
MMMB-01 July 09
MMMB-01 1st Qtr. 2010

NRBC-01 July 08
NRBC-01 July 09
NRBC-01 1st Qtr. 2010

NRMB-01 July 08
NRMB-01 July 09
NRMB-01 1st Qtr. 2010

OVLY-01 July 08
OVLY-01 July 09
OVLY-01 1st Qtr. 2010

VAMB-01 July 08
VAMB-01 July 09
VAMB-01 1st Qtr. 2010

VAMB-03 July 08
VAMB-03 July 09 (not received)
VAMB-03 1st Qtr. 2010

WCSC-01 July 08
WCSC-01 July 09
WCSC-01 1st Qtr. 2010

WCSC-03 July 08
WCSC-03 July 09
WCSC-03 1st Qtr. 2010

2011:
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter

Fourth Quarter 2011, Two Quarters 2012 (8 MB)

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

City of Santa Clarita Docs Set # 5
More Coming

There may be some more Santa Clarita info posted here soon. Please mark your calendar to come back here and have a look!

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