City of Encinitas Documents (Program Closing?)
(For info about the possible closing, see Set # 5 below)

Encinitas, pop. 60,000, is on the coast 20 miles north of San Diego.

Some of Encinitas' 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 and Docs Set # 3, below.

At their Feb. 27, 2013 meeting, the City Council directed staff to come back (at a future meeting) with a report about the future of the City's camera system.

  Encinitas Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Incidents Recorded & Citations Issued

New 10-22-10,  updated 5-16-13

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

Official reports, 2004 - 2010 [8]
Official reports, 2011 - 2012
Official reports, 2012 - 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.  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). Due to time limitations data may have been posted to the table only for selected months or locations.  If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months or locations will be posted.  Full official data has been received and is available at one of the links given above.
[5]  Monthly data was requested on ----- but has not yet been received.
[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, right) is not yet available.
[7]  Includes enforcement of posted "no turn on red" signs.
[8]  Ticket counts for these months are about 3% high, as the monthly data received from the City (see links, above) covered the first of the month to the first of the next month (inclusive). 

Encinitas 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.)


The picture above is an example from another city.

July 2004 & July 2010 Bar Graphs

July 2012 Bar Graphs:

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

Encinitas Docs Set # 3
Fake / Snitch Ticket

(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 Encinitas sends out to some motorists.

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

In the law enforcement business, these notices are called a "nomination."  I call them a Snitch Ticket.

To read what the DMV says about these notices, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

Please note that while this Snitch Ticket calls itself a "Notice to Appear" (look in the fine print of the so-called "Certificate of Mailing" at the bottom of the front page), that does not convert it into a real ticket.  A real ticket must contain a Notice to Appear section, printed in the official format.

Front of Fake/Snitch Ticket:



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






Encinitas Docs Set # 4
Missing Warning Signs Discovered July 2008

  Encinitas forgot to put up the required warning signs at a couple of entrances to town.
  The sign in this picture was apparently delivered to the location where it was to be erected, but whoever was supposed to put it up, didn't, and it was left lying in the weeds!

 
If you tell the judge about the missing signs and the judge wants to see photos, give the judge a copy of this page, or provide the link so that he or she can look at the photos on the courtroom computer.

These pictures were taken on July 25.  It is believed that the signs were finally erected on July 30, or shortly thereafter.

For more details about the requirement to post warning signs, see Defect # 4 on the Home page.

Go here to see more photos.

Encinitas Docs Set # 5
The Contract - Program Closing?

2004 Contract, 2009 Amendment, and 2010 Extension

The contract signed in 2004 contained, at sec. 6.1, a clause allowing the city to terminate the contract if it was not cost neutral.  The 2009 amendment removed that section.

A Second Amendment in 2011 extended the program seven years to 2018 without an escape clause permitting early termination for convenience, and provided for an annual review of financial feasibility.

In the 2011 amendment the City agreed to pay $3700 per camera per month.  Many area cities pay less than $3000 (see FAQ # 17), and had Encinitas' negotiators obtained a $3000 price, they would have saved the City $176,400.

Program Closing?

At the June 26, 2013 council meeting, the council will discuss ending the program.
 

This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of 10-23-12.

Encinitas Docs Set # 6
More Coming

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




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