Hayward Docs - Main Page - Illegal Red Light Cameras

Some of Hayward'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." For more details, see the Fake Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

If you have a Hayward red light camera ticket, contact me. And also look at the Countywide Information, on the Oakland Documents page.

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official monthly tabulations of citations actually issued.
Official tabulations:
Sep08 - Sep09
Dec09 - Mar10
Apr10 - Jun10
Jul10
Oct10 - Sep11
Apr11 - Sep11
Oct09 - Oct11

[ ] indicates a footnote.
[1] Totals and any percentages 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 the city calls Total Violations (total incidents photographed by the camera), 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 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/phishing Tickets).
[5] 2008 data is for 4+ months up to Dec. 31, 2008.
[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 police were not able to provide the data for this month.
[8] Month-by-month data has been requested but has not yet been received.
[9] Data for this month has not yet been requested.
[10] The title bar has been repeated solely for the convenience of the reader - there is no difference between it and the one at the top of the table.

Hayward Docs Set # 2
"Late Time" Graphs

The City provided bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera, for each of its cameras, for the 2nd quarter of 2010.
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.

2nd Quarter 2010:

A880-01
A880-03
B2ND-01
HEAS-01
INHU-01
INWH-01
MIIN-01
SCJA-01
WIHE-01
WIHE-03

The City has refused to provide any more recent bar graphs.

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

Hayward Docs Set # 3
Contract, Info on City's Website, and Snitch Tickets

A lot of Hayward information, including the contract, is available on the Hayward PD website.

Hayward's contract may be cost neutral. In Exhibit D the first of two paragraphs numbered "3" speaks of balances remaining unpaid "due to a deficit in the gross cash received as described herein…." But I cannot find any description, or discussion of such a deficit elsewhere in the contract.

In a report presented at the Oct. 11, 2011 city council meeting, the police chief provided the following breakdown of the (approx.) 1500 potential violations flashed each month by her cameras: 500 motorists are sent a Notice to Appear (a real ticket), 730 motorists are sent a fake ticket (Snitch Ticket), and about 300 of the violations are discarded.
The minutes of that meeting noted:
"In response to Council Member Zermeño's question for reasons why cities chose to drop out of the Red Light Camera program, Police Chief Urban explained one reason was because 2/3 of the revenue collected from the program went to the monitoring company.
City Manager David commented that another reason was the lack of strong evidence in the industry that red light cameras were effective in reducing collisions."

Hayward Docs Set # 4
Encroachment Permits

Some of the City's cameras are located on CalTrans right-of-ways, so are operated under an encroachment permit obtained from CalTrans. HighwayRobbery.net obtained these documents from CalTrans, via a public records request.

Permit Application, Dec. 2008
Justification Correspondence, 2009
Issued Permit, Oct. 2009

Some other cities operate cameras under encroachment permits. For more information about those cities and about CalTrans' criteria for the issuance of an encroachment permit, see the CalTrans section on the Links page.

Hayward Docs Set # 5
More Coming

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

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