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Some of El Cajon's "tickets" can be ignored! If your ticket does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is a fake ticket, 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 documents obtained from the City under the California Public Records Act.

The information received from the City of El Cajon contained a variety of report styles, some monthly, and some quarterly.

Official tabulations, 2002 - 2009
2007 - 2009 Quarterly Reports to City Council (including quarterly official tabulations)
Official tabulations, 2008 - 2009 monthly
Official tabulations, 2009 - 2012
Official tabulations, 2003 - 2013

[ ] 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 intersection-by-intersection data has been received but has not yet been fully posted on this table, due to time constraints. It is available at the links, above.
[6] Monthly data has not been requested.
[7] 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.
[8] Includes enforcement of posted "no turn on red" signs.
[9] The figures are totals for the 19 months 1-1-08 to 7-30-09, from a table provided by the City.

El Cajon 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.

July 2003 and July 2012

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

The five-year renewal of the Redflex contract approved by the city council in July 2009 reduced the stated monthly fee per existing camera from the previous $5370 to a new fee of $4300. The staff report said that two of the nine existing cameras would be provided at no cost to the City, so the effective fee per existing camera will be $3344. New cameras will cost $6200 each.

Had the council negotiated to obtain a $2829 fee like that obtained in Aug. 2008 by the City of South Gate, it could have saved an additional $515 per camera per month, or $278,100 for the nine cameras over the 60 months of the contract. (Like the El Cajon contract, the South Gate contract calls for two cameras at no cost.)

Or, had the council negotiated a $2500 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Davis, it could have saved $455,760.

Or, had the council negotiated a $2225 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Solana Beach, it could have saved $604,260.

On Feb. 26, 2013 the City Council voted to shut the cameras off, immediately, for a six-month study period.
The cameras were shut off on the 27th.
We recommended that during the study period the City should try some Alternatives to cameras.

The closing of the program was voted upon at the council meeting of Sept. 24, 2013. The staff report prepared for that meeting recommended closing the program. The vote was 4 - 1 to close, Councilmember Lewis opposing.

This list of El Cajon contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of Sept. 24, 2013.

El Cajon Docs Set # 5
More Coming?

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

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