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City of Solana Beach Documents
(and Information)

 
Solana Beach, pop. 14,000, is on the coast 15 miles north of San Diego.

The City signed a contract with RedFlex on Dec. 30, 2003, and began issuing warning tickets in Oct. 2004.

Some of Solana Beach's tickets can 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, and Set # 1, below.


Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Total Violations Recorded, Notices Printed, and Citations Issued [4]

New 11-14-05, updated 1-11-13

On Nov. 12, 2005 the city clerk's office supplied copies of RedFlex invoices containing monthly camera-by-camera totals of Citations Issued (filed with the court).  Those totals were entered into the table, below, as "Total Citations Issued per Invoices."  Until 2009 the City paid $89 for each cite issued, up to 179 cites per camera per month, and $80 each for additional cites.
(Since the 2009 contract amendment the City has paid a flat rate per month regardless of how many tickets are issued.)

Snitch Tickets

The City's use of Nominations (a.k.a. Snitch Tickets) probably explains,
(A)  the discrepancy between the figures for Notices Printed and Total Cites Issued (filed with the court), and
(B)  the month-to-month overlap in the serial numbers.

See the table's footnotes for further details.

Cam #

101L
01
LOSH
01
SHLO
01









Hwy 101
SB @
Lomas
Santa Fe

Lomas
Santa Fe
EB @
Solana
Hills
Solana
Hills
NB @
Lomas
Santa Fe



[3]
Serial
Number
Range
of
Citations
Issued
This
Month,
per
Invoices
Total
Notices
Printed
as % of
Violations
Recorded
Total
Violations
Recorded/
Notices
Printed/
Citations
Issued
per

Invoices
[1] [4]

Oct04











Nov04
74
17
92



[7]

183

Dec04
138
56
262



00737-
01698

456

2004











Jan05
218
129
90
129
92
48
296
154
129




00812-
02005

643
375
267

Feb05
205
125
81
77
55
53
212
102
96




01442-
02332

494
282
230

Mar05
117
53
79




01137-
02616

249

Apr05
91
51
38




01910-
02834

180

May05
85
55
49




02139-
03047

189

Jun05
76
53
44




02494-
03251

173

Jul05
215
52
64
121
60
36
65
25
20




01231-
03408

401
137
120

Aug05
13
54
21




02930-
03509

88

Sep05
12
25
25




03357-
03595

62

Oct05
[5]










Nov05
[5]










Dec05
[5]










2005











Jan06
43
18
95
67
87
53






225
138

Jul06
92
52
116
61
90
42






298
155

2006











Jan07
15
10
59
52
72
46






146
108

Jul07
65
34
123
74
90
41






278
149

2007











Jan08
40
24
72
54
63
37






175
115

Jul08
33
11
118
62
82
37






233
110

2008











Jan09
18
10
100
81
43
26






161
117

Jul09
37
18
115
73
61
33






213
124

2009











Jan10
30
22
66
54
36
24






132
100

Apr10
[8]
82
72
184
134








Jul10
19
16
102
79
169
119






290
214

Oct10
[8] 71
63
146
105








2010











Jan11
[8] 62
53
143
108








Feb11











Mar11











Apr11
[8] 63
47
148
95








May11











Jun11











Jul11
[8] 94
60
156
88








Aug11











Sep11











Oct11
[8] 81
59
146
95








Nov11











Dec11











2011











Jan12
[8] 58
48
120
76








Feb12
[8] 67
54
117
83








Mar12
[8] 77
63
128
73








Apr12
[8] 91
75
135
93








May12
[8] 102
85
149
82








Jun12
[8] 101
91
123
92








Jul12
[8] 99
77
129
89








Aug12
[8] 100
87
168
118








Sep12
[8] 88
71
123
72








Oct12
[8] 105
94
174
121








Nov12
[8] 67
60
121
86








Dec12
[9]
[8] 63
54
[9]
119
82
[9]








2012











Cam #

101L
01
LOSH
01
SHLO
01









Hwy 101
SB @
Lomas
Santa Fe

Lomas
Santa Fe
EB @
Solana
Hills
Solana
Hills
NB @
Lomas
Santa Fe



[3]
Serial
Number
Range
of
Citations
Issued
This
Month,
per
Invoices
Total
Notices
Printed
as % of
Violations
Recorded
Total
Violations
Recorded/
Notices
Printed/
Citations
Issued
per

Invoices
[1] [4]


This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official documents obtained under the California Public Records Act.

Official Tabulations, 2004 - 2010
Official Tabulations, 2010 - 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]  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 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 Nominations mailed (not filed with the court, a.k.a. Snitch Tickets).   Figures in blue type (or, if you are looking at this table in black and white, in italic type) are total Cites Issued (filed with the court), per RedFlex's monthly invoices to the City.
[5]  Data for these months has not been requested.
[6]  The camera enforcement is on traffic on the first-named street, but the direction of enforcement (north, south, east, west, thru, left) is not yet available.
[7]  Data was requested on:
[8]  The reports for these months omitted figures for camera 101L.  We have asked for new reports.
[9]  The report for this month was generated less than ten days after the end of the month, so may not reflect the full number of tickets issued.




Solana Beach 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.)

Grand Terrace late times bar chart
The picture above is an example from another city.

101L - July 2005
101L - July 2010

LOSH - July 2005
LOSH- July 2010

SHLO - July 2005
SHLO - July 2010

All cameras, July 2012

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




Solana Beach Docs Set # 3
The Contracts, Etc.

2003 Contract
2009 Amendment


The 2009 amendment appears to be flat rate except that it contains, in Exhibit B, this "deficit" clause: 

Except where a balance remains unpaid due to a deficit in the gross cash received as described herein, the City agrees to pay the provider within thirty (30) days after the invoice is received.

The 2009 amendment allows the City to terminate the program after 30-days notice.

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




Solana Beach Docs Set # 4
Info on City's Website?

I have not been able to find a red light camera program info page on either the City's or the sheriff's website. 





Solana Beach Docs Set # 5
More Coming


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




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