City of Vista Documents

Vista, pop. 85,000, is 30 miles north of San Diego and 5 miles inland of Oceanside and Carlsbad

 

Vista Docs Set # 1
  Fake / Snitch Ticket, a.k.a. "Nomination"

(If you haven't already done so, please read the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.)

Here is the front and back of the clever Snitch Ticket Vista sends out to some motorists.

Note the use of the mandatory wording "must complete" and that the incident is called a "citation" even though nothing has been filed with the court. 

For similar Notices, but with less-misleading wording, see the El Cajon Documents or the Encinitas Documents pages.

For a similar notice with color pictures (from another town), see full color notice.

In the red light camera Industry, these notices are called a "nomination."  I call them a Snitch Ticket.

For more information about such notices, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

Front side of Fake/Snitch Ticket:

Back side of Notice (yellow highlighting added by highwayrobbery.net):

Vista Docs Set # 2
Ticket Counts

Violations Recorded and Notices Printed [4]

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

2004 - 2010 Official Reports
2010 - 2012 Official 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, 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 has not been requested from the City.
[6]  The street and direction of enforcement (north, south, east, west, thru, left, right) is not yet available.
[7]  Monthly data was requested on: 
[8]  The heading is repeated here, solely for the reader's convenience.  It is the same as the heading at the top of the table.
[9]  In 2010 most of Escondido Avenue was renamed Civic Center Drive.

Vista Docs Set # 3
"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.

EMVW 2006
EMVW 2010

ESSA 2006
ESSA 2010

HAME 2006
HAME 2010

MEHA 2006
MEHA 2010

SAES 2006
SAES 2010

SAVI 2006
SAVI 2010

SYSH 2006
SYSH 2010

VISA 2006
VISA 2010

VWEM 2006
VWEM 2010

All cameras, 2012

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

Vista Docs Set # 4
The Contract, Etc.

2003 Contract
2009 Contract
2010 Amendment

This list of contracts and/or amendments was up-to-date as of Nov. 15, 2012.

Vista Docs Set # 5
Info on City's Site?

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

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