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City of Emeryville Documents (Program Closed)
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Some of Emeryville'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 "Fake Ticket" or "Snitch Ticket."  For more details, see the Fake Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

Emeryville has issued as many as 1202 tickets in a month at its 40th & Horton camera.  If you got a ticket there, I suggest doing the following:
Contact your auto club and ask them to designate Emeryville as a "strict enforcement area," as they did for the entire state of Arizona.
President's office, Auto Club of Northern California (415) 565-2005
member.relations@GoAAA.com
Further club contact info is in the big purple-ish box on the Action page of this website
If you were shopping at one of the stores in the 40th & Horton neighborhood, contact the manager of the store and ask him or her to post a warning on the store's website, and on the telephone menu where they provide directions for driving to the store, to let new customers know that they must make a full stop before making the right turn to reach the store.

Best Buy (510) 420-0323 (local store) or 1-800-Best Buy
Home Depot (510) 601-9400 (local store) or 1-800-553-3199
Office Depot (510) 547-9660 (local store) or 1-800-Go Depot
Babies R Us (510) 637-7003 (local store) or 1-800-ToysRUs
Michaels (510) 658-4830 (local store) or 1-800-Michaels

If you have an Emeryville red light camera ticket, be sure to look at the Countywide Information, on the Oakland Documents page.

 
  City of Emeryville Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

New 7-12-09, updated 4-7-12

Total Violations Recorded ("Total Violations"), Notices Printed (Citations Issued) [5]

Cam #
40HL
-01
40HO
-01
POCH
-01
POCH
-03






A
B
C
D
E

40th
Ebd
@
Hollis
40th
Ebd
@
Horton
Powell
&
Christie
Powell
&
Christie





[4]
Total
Notices
Printed
as %
of Vio-
lations
Re-
corded
Total
Violations
Recorded/
Notices
Printed
per
Redflex
Customer
Management
Report
[1] [5]
Total
"Violations"
Issued,
per
Monthly
Progress
Report to
City Mgr.
[9]
Total
"Citations
Issued,"
per
RedFlex'
Invoices
to City
[9]
Total
Non-
Camera
Moving
or
Equip.
Citations
Issued
[9]
Sep04
0
0
82
44
599
493







681
537



Oct04
0
0
536
334
635
550







1171
884

447

Nov04
0
0
365
247
158
112







523
359

451

Dec04
0
0
402
298
191
155







593
453

426

2004















Jan05
0
0
317
209
123
100







440
309

268

Feb05
0
0
325
189
106
57







431
246

203

Mar05
441
212
485
287
314
149
152
74







1392
722

530

Apr05
342
144
339
189
276
121
148
77







1105
529

421

May05
397
193
321
140
291
120
159
31







1168
484

417

Jun05
358
117
377
92
291
107
138
18







1119
334

237

Jul05
358
149
302
39
385
133
91
18







1136
339

311

Aug05
325
127
325
133
574
84
151
66







1375
410

316

Sep05
308
128
279
152
297
85
104
39







988
404

284

Oct05
362
107
293
120
539
88
118
33







1312
348

242

Nov05
327
86
267
97
889
170
100
24







1583
377

322

Dec05
308
116
85
38
621
128
143
76







1157
358

224

2005















Jan06
261
89
223
125
504
174
113
35







1101
423

[11]

Feb06 [6]
189
134
207
61







591

[11]
Mar06 [6] 189
144
247
55







635

[11]
Apr06 [6] 101
89
185
67







442

[11]
May06 [6] 82
111
113
50







356

[11]
Jun06 [6] 110
74
150
43







377

[11]
Jul06
401
136
352
111
525
154
123
35







1401
436

[11]
Aug06 [6] 61
54
108
23







246

[11]
Sep06 [6] 157
129
125
46







457

[11]
Oct06 [6] 125
99
110
29







363

[11]
Nov06 [6] 200
177
202
47







626

[11]
Dec06 [6] 249
193
217
63







722

[11]
2006















Jan07
273
185
276
191
375
153
75
53







999
582

[11]
Feb07 [6] 195
485
220
34







934

[11]
Mar07 [6] 209
594
189
33







1025

[11]
Apr07
463
312
1271
640
532
209
82
40







2348
1201

[11]
May07 [6] 141
550
285
30







1006

[11]
Jun07 [6] 16
232
63
41







352

[11]
Jul07
39
27
798
333
272
80
97
57







1206
497

[11]
Aug07 [6] 32
80
77
60







249

[11]
Sep07 [6] 17
250
60
35







362

[11]
Oct07 [6] 25
500
72
38







635

[11]
Nov07 [6] 22
376
74
36







508

[11]
Dec07 [6] 31
524
105
57







717

[11]
2007















Jan08
37
24
504
430
175
94
73
50







789
598

546

Feb08
37
22
612
448
168
85
67
47







884
602

437

Mar08
40
24
748
606
172
64
86
56







1046
750

511

Apr08
48
30
821
598
189
43
62
34







1120
705

523

May08
53
28
812
494
177
47
107
59







1149
628

504

Jun08
51
26
678
405
72
13
92
57







893
501

384

Jul08
24
3
542
301
69
11
67
40







702
355
452
357
194
Aug08
34
22
1429
1099
63
10
107
61







1633
1192
453
551
166
Sep08
32
20
1528
1184
119
0
72
42







1751
1247
550
912
60
Oct08
31
14
1541
1202
88
27
45
28







1705
1271
1468
906
85
Nov08
49
33
1260
942
142
54
84
42







1535
1071
1259
683
164
Dec08
34
16
1018
741
138
73
91
57







1281
887
916
662
53
2008















Jan09
47
26
865
625
156
77
63
41







1131
769
950
716
87
Feb09
34
14
734
264
148
41
66
33







982
352
1008
422
124
Mar09
34
23
1026
545
190
88
66
38







1316
694
358
350
79
Apr09
36
23
1119
587
148
81
68
41







1371
732
884
577
103
May09
33
9
1401
698
197
117
57
33







1688
857
859
613
92
Jun09
34
17
1289
611
206
116
65
34







1594
778
1033
576
64
Jul09
29
16
1305
720
222
143
74
48







1630
927
1015
[11] 111
Aug09
45
12
1442
717
241
138
68
43







1796
910
1113
[11] 129
Sep09
31
15
217
135
176
73
53
29







477
252
718
[11] 116
Oct09
32
16
363
262
225
137
43
32







663
447
595
[11] 86
Nov09
24
10
299
221
222
162
63
52







608
445
636
[11] 129
Dec09
35
27
302
242
169
115
81
65







587
449
567
[11] 100
2009















Jan10
19
13
297
201
391
252
44
33







751
499
492
[11] 14
Feb10 
27
20
360
268
431
207
46
37







864
532
602
[11] 92
Mar10
28
14
467
229
493
201
66
42







1054
486
616
[11] 18
Apr10
[13]
25
7
413
258
24
8
43
25







505
298
[12]
[11] 131
May10
 26
13
495
327
0
0
72
56







593
396
[12] [11] 243
Jun10
34
23
466
310
0
0
63
52







563
385
[12] [11] 164
Jul10
32
20
463
331
0
0
30
17







525
368
[12] [11] 156
Aug10
30
10
421
259
0
0
0
0







451
269
[12] [11] 146
Sep10
26
8
495
341
0
0
0
0







521
349
[12] [11] 165
Oct10
31
1
450
289
0
0
0
0







481
290
[12] [11]
Nov10
30
19
437
357
0
0
0
0







467
376
[12] [11]
Dec10 34
24
318
217
68
19
43
12







463
272
[12] [11]
2010















Jan11 25
17
305
238
138
49
52
33







520
337
[12] [11]
Feb11 36
20
374
281
111
81
52
24







573
406

[11]
Mar11 25
16
321
223
114
80
52
34







512
353

[11]
Apr11 40
23
323
182
111
57
62
31







536
293

[11]
May11 31
16
339
186
130
61
65
39







565
302

[11]
Jun11 30
19
282
167
144
80
84
51







540
317

[11]
Jul11 30
17
374
267
159
56
67
35







630
375

[11]
Aug11 32
20
338
243
128
82
74
42







572
387
[12] [11]
Sep11 40
28
309
255
119
96
62
41







530
420

[11]
Oct11
[2]
49
38
357
307
177
104
65
46







648
495

[11]
Nov11
[2]
34
30
313
285
117
95
53
26







517
436

[11]
Dec11
[2]
29
22
289
235
100
76
65
51







483
384

[11]
2011















Jan12
[2]
43
38
293
251
101
75
71
54







508
418

[11]
Feb12
[2]
33
24
271
226
81
54
54
41







439
345

[11]
Mar12
[2]
36
21
322
210
92
50
62
33







512
314

[11]
Apr12














May12














Jun12














Cam #
40HL
-01
40HO
-01
POCH
-01
POCH
-03






A
B
C
D
E

40th
Ebd
Hollis
40th
Ebd
Horton
Powell
&
Christie
Powell
&
Christie





[4]
Total
Notices
Printed
as %
of Vio-
lations
Re-
corded
Total
Violations
Recorded/
Notices
Printed
per
RedFlex
Customer
Management
Report
[1] [5]
Total
"Violations"
Issued,
per
Monthly
Progress
Report to
City Council
[9]
Total
"Citations
Issued,"
per
RedFlex'
Invoices
to City
[9]
Total
Non-
Camera
Moving
or
Equip.
Citations
Issued
[9]

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

Doc:  Invoices 2004 - 2005
Doc:  Invoices 2008 - 2009
Doc:  Ticket Counts 2004 - 2006
Doc:   Ticket Counts 2007 - 2009
Doc:  Ticket Counts 2009 - 2010
Doc:  Ticket Counts 2009 - 2010, more
Doc:  Ticket Counts Nov. 2010 - Mar. 2011
Doc:  Ticket Counts Apr. 2011 - Sep. 2011
Doc:  Ticket Counts Oct. 2011 - Mar. 2012


[  ] indicates a footnote.
[1]  Except where noted, monthly grand totals are as provided by the City.
[2]  Monthly grand total calculated by highwayrobbery.net
[3]  YTD = Year-to-date total.
[4]  Un-used columns are to allow for later expansion of City's system.
[5]  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.  (It is available in the source documents linked above.) 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).
[6]  "Total Violations" data has been received (available in source documents linked above), but has not been posted due to time constraints.
[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 column "C" & "E" figures were found in monthly the police department provides to the city manager (available on the City's website:  http://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us  Home > Departments > City Manager > Monthly Progress Report ). The column "D" figures are from the monthly invoices from camera vendor RedFlex, to the City.  The difference between column "C" and "D" may be due to the inclusion of Nominations in Column "C."
[10]  Data was requested on: 
[11]  Data has not been requested.
[12]  Red light camera data was not included in Monthly Progress Report.
[13] The Monthly Progress Report for April 2010 indicated that road contractors cut the loops for Ebd Powell at Christie, disabling the camera.




City of Emeryville Docs Set # 2
Emeryville on TV

Emeryville Police Chief Ken James
Kenneth James, Chief of Police, Emeryville

The KRON Report

KRON-TV reporter Jonathan Bloom
shows us his Emeryville "ticket" - which is an obvious Snitch Ticket - but he never mentions that angle. 
He could have ignored it, but maybe he didn't realize it was fake, until too late!  
(Watch video)


The KTVU Report


Here's Chief James again:

Reporter:  Emeryville police say almost 40% of the red light camera tickets they send out are snitch tickets.  A camera at 40th and Horton generates hundreds of red light violations a month.  Many on rolling right hand turns, or what is known as a California Stop.

Chief James:  Council felt that was an intersection where we wanted to use the camera as a slowing tactic there.

Reporter:  But it’s not an intersection with many injury accidents.  An average of just one a year in the last six years, and no fatalities.  And the camera company actually surveys the intersections and tells police where they can catch the most offenders.

Chief James:  Basically they’re saying we’re going to make money off that intersection if we put it there.

Reporter:  But that doesn’t bother Chief James.

Chief James:  It’s a half million dollars in fines that we would not normally have collected.

Link to Nov. 3, 2011 KTVU Report



City of Emeryville Docs Set # 3
"Late Time" Graphs

The City provided bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera, for all four 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.


Powell & Christie (POCH-01), 2004-2005
Powell & Christie (POCH-01), 2008-2009
Powell & Christie (POCH-01), Oct. 2009
Powell & Christie (POCH-01), Jan. 2010
Powell & Christie (POCH-01), Apr. 2010
Powell & Christie (POCH-01), Mar. 2012

Powell & Christie (POCH-03), 2004-2005
Powell & Christie (POCH-03), 2008-2009
Powell & Christie (POCH-03), Jul. 2010
Powell & Christie (POCH-03), Mar. 2012

40th & Horton (40HO-01), 2004-2005
40th & Horton (40HO-01), 2008-2009
40th & Horton (40HO-01), July 2009
40th & Horton (40HO-01), Oct. 2009
40th & Horton (40HO-01), Jan. 2010
40th & Horton (40HO-01), Apr. 2010
40th & Horton (40HO-01), Jul. 2010
40th & Horton (40HO-01), Oct. 2010
40th & Horton (40HO-01), Mar. 2012

40th & Hollis (40HL-01), 2004-2005
40th & Hollis (40HL-01), 2008-2009
40th & Hollis (40HL-01), Jul. 2010
40th & Hollis (40HL-01), Mar. 2012

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




City of Emeryville Docs Set # 4
The Contracts, and Closure of Program

Emeryville signed a pay-per-ticket contract with RedFlex on Dec. 18, 2003, two weeks before the effective date of CVC 21455.5(g) (as of 2013, 21455.5(h)).  The contract said RedFlex would be paid $89 for each citation issued.

In Sept. 2009, the five-year Redflex
contract renewal the city council approved 3 - 2 (noes:  Bukowski, Atkin) set the monthly rent for each of the four existing cameras at $6000.  (Staff report for the 2009 meeting.)

Had the council negotiated a $4000 rent like that in the 2008 contract of the City of Santa Clarita, it could have saved $2000 per camera per month, or $480,000 for the four cameras over the 60 months of the contract.

Or, had the council negotiated a $2800 rent like that in the proposed 2009 contract for the City of Maywood, it could have saved $3200 per camera per month, or $768,000 for the four cameras over the 60 months of the contract.

Or, had the council negotiated a $1400 rent like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Whittier, it could have saved $4600 per camera per month, or $1,104,000 for the four cameras over the 60 months of the contract.

Or, had the council negotiated a $2225 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Solana Beach, it could have saved $906,000.

Or, had the council negotiated a $2500 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Davis, it could have saved $840,320.

In May 2012 the city council voted to terminate the program.  Because the contract required 45 days advance notice, the program may have continued through the end of June. 
From Chief James'
staff report:

"Staff also analyzed the number of accidents for the same seven year period and found that the red light cameras did not significantly impact the number of accidents." 
"Finance has estimated that elimination of the program would result in a $200,000 per year savings to the City." 



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.




City of Emeryville Docs Set # 5
Info on the EPD Website

There is red light camera program info at the City's website.
(If the link does not work, go to the City's site and drill down:
Home > Departments > Police > Red Light Ticket Info.




City of Emeryville Docs Set # 6
Appeal Decision


In May 2010 an Emeryville defendant won an appeal decision based upon the 6th Amendment right to confront the witnesses against you.   See the decision
here.





City of Emeryville Docs Set # 7
More Coming


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





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