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City of Ventura Documents
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Ventura (formally:  San Buenaventura), pop. 101,000, is on the coast 53 miles west of Los Angeles.

Some of Ventura'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. 

Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Violations Recorded (some months) and Citations Issued

New 11-22-04

Cam #	BRJO	CATH	FOVI	JONB	MA10	MALE	MAMI	MIDE	MITG	TGDA	THSE	VIMO	VIOP	VIRA	VITG	VITP -01	VITP -03	VIVA
	Bris- tol @ John- son [6]	Calif. @ Thom- pson [6]	Foot- hill @ Vic- toria [6]	John- son @ North- bank [6]	Main @ 101 [6]	Main @ Lemon Grove [6]	Main @ Mills [6]	Mills @ Dean [6]	Mills @ Tele- graph [6]	Tele- graph @ Day [6]	Thom- pson @ Sea- ward [6]	Vic- toria @ Moon [6]	Vic- toria @ Olivas Park [6]	Vic- toria @ Rals- ton [6]	Vic- toria @ Tele- graph [6]	Vic- toria @ Tele- phone [6]	Vic- toria @ Tele- phone [6]	Vic- toria @ Valen- tine [6]		[3]	Total Cites Issued as % of Recorded	Total Re- corded/ Issued [1]
Oct03	6		15	14		29	6	58	7	5	28	31	33	25	46	73	10	42				753 428
2003
Oct04	4		9	5	97	14	13	20	6	5	30	14	37	13	52	61	36	13				698 429
13 mos. [7]	59		133	197	638	199	143	329	68	111	425	406	364	255	558	839	407	368				9218 5499
2004
Jan08	9 3	53 31	17 10	7 5	98 80	35 21	23 7	40 12	1130 32	9 6	29 14	71 40	12 5	54 13	81 52	46 21	66 57	53 23				1833 432
Feb08	[5]	68 32							1012 85													1660 416
Mar08	[5]	61 28							959 140													1761 619
Apr08	[5]	43 21							1028 145													1708 491
May08	[5]	0							909 149													1538 477
Jun08	[5]	0							602 119													1360 449
Jul08	15 0	565 215	19 4	15 12	64 41	60 25	12 4	52 8	814 121	14 4	48 24	64 35	40 6	52 21	59 26	46 13	48 26	64 28				2051 613
Aug08	[5]	713 270							865 113													2316 730
Sep08	[5]	459 192							781 170													1926 712
Oct08	[5]	463 228							744 178													1952 854
Nov08	[5]	515 268							602 131													1793 841
Dec08	[5]	573 273							709 140													1786 741
2008
Jan09	16 4	480 284	15 7	6 3	41 27	45 38	15 6	36 19	504 94	8 4	16 13	58 28	26 13	7 3	35 18	48 41	37 27	62 29				1455 658
Feb09	[5]	389 207							274 88													1093 542
Mar09	[5]	454 187							323 101													1270 563
Apr09	[5]	513 170							327 69													1333 481
May09	[5]	496 186							281 92													1274 509
Jun09	[5]	467 158							272 66													1222 453
Jul09	3 1	152 56	14 8	13 8	55 31	38 18	20 5	53 22	320 95	6 1	22 7	46 28	13 8	27 12	23 5	19 11	55 39	53 20				931 375
Aug09	[5]	96 33							281 85													867 370
Sep09
Oct09
Nov09
Dec09
2009
Jan10
Feb10
Mar10
Apr10
May10
Jun10
Jul10
Aug10
Sep10
Oct10
Nov10
Dec10
2010

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official monthly tabulations of citations actually issued.
[  ] 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 are "raw" violations recorded by the cameras, and have been posted only for selected months, due to time limitations.  If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months will be posted.  The figures in black type are citations issued.

[5]  Data has been recived but has not yet been posted.
[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) is not yet available.
[7]  The data in this row covers Oct. 1, 2003 to Oct. 31, 2004.

Docs Set # 2
Ventura Owes RedFlex $1.7 Million

Ventura's contract with RedFlex (signed May 2006) includes an illegal "cost neutrality" clause, whereby the city does not have to pay RedFlex
 the full monthly rent (the so- called "fixed fee") if there aren't enough fines to cover the cost.  See Subsection B. of Defect # 10.

Because of that "cost neutrality" clause and low ticket revenue over a two-year period, by Nov. 2008 Ventura 
had paid RedFlex $1.7 million less than the cumulative "fixed fee."  See the clause and the invoices here.

In Nov. 2008 the contract was amended to add the following (among other things):

5.  Cost neutrality is guaranteed except as follows:

[If] The city fails to enforce right turn violations (from automated red light violations), in good faith and due diligence, if and when systems are configured for this purpose as mutually agreed between Redflex and the City.




Docs Set # 3
Grand Jury Report Recommends Longer Yellows

In June 2009 the Ventura County Grand Jury issued a report recommending the the yellow at the California/Thompson intersection be lengthened.
  The Calif./Thompson ticket counts for July and August (see table above) show a reduced ticket volume, which will make it more difficult for the City to pay off the debt it owes RedFlex.
See article (including link to the report).




Docs Set # 4
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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