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City of Hayward Documents
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Closed May 1, 2013.  See Set # 3, below.

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.

 
  Hayward Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Violations Recorded (some months) and Citations Issued [4]

New  4-25-09, updated 7-1-13

Cam #
A880
01
A880
03
B2ND
01
HEAS
01
INHU
01
INWH
01
MIIN
01
SCJA
01
WIHE
01
WIHE
03



City
of
Hayward
"A"
&
880
Wbd
or
Ebd


[6]
"A"
&
880
Wbd
or
Ebd


[6]
"B"
&
2nd


Wbd

Hes-
perian
&
"A"

Nbd

Indus-
trial
&
Hunt-
wood
Ebd

Indus-
trial
&
Whip-
ple
Nbd

Mis-
sion
&
Indus-
trial
Nbd
Santa
Clara
&
Jack-
son
Nbd
Win-
ton
&
Hes-
perian
Wbd
or
Ebd
[6]
Win-
ton
&
Hes-
perian
Wbd
or
Ebd
[6]
Total
Cites
Issued
as %
of
Recorded

Total
Recorded/
Issued





[1] [4]

Jul08













Aug08













Sep08


391
212

193
72



532
21
0
0

1116
305

Oct08


337
174

243
86



790
246
133
19

1503
525

Nov08


297
178

153
67



641
168
278
93

1369
506

Dec08


188
141

167
82



513
181
194
84

1062
488

2008
4+ months
[5]


1614
896

1193
471



3084
632
605
196

6496
2195

Jan09


112
81

181
75



432
154
218
169

943
379

Feb09


134
73

219
108



379
112
164
53

896
346

Mar09


77
43

241
88



384
113
255
37

957
281

Apr09


167
86

782
230



363
52
252
31

1564
399

May09


294
218

596
260



387
124
216
52

1493
654

Jun09


250
140
14
1
647
250



329
65
257
59

1497
515

Jul09


221
129
585
330
795
184



396
115
305
95

2302
853

Aug09


142
88
584
263
712
168



419
115
329
97

2186
731

Sep09


116
75
658
381
659
170



471
131
295
109

2199
866

Oct09


138
116
521
363
504
165



524
221
316
151

2003
1016

Nov09


139
118
465
334
561
158



485
289
169
92

1819
911

Dec09


116
86
445
311
541
153



446
212
121
60

1669
822

2009













Jan10
0
0
0
0
101
84
374
250
439
119
0
0
0
0
0
0
294
127
168
65

1376
645

Feb10
107
3
51
7
79
63
338
231
378
95
691
18
125
9
10
4
320
110
107
54

2206
594

Mar10
1571
671
2253
1670
94
72
336
173
384
95
1554
608
126
52
479
94
403
75
149
53

7349
3563

Apr10
1576
980
778
472
87
54
284
156
372
74
890
302
104
63
246
60
299
94
107
30

4743
2285

May10
1388
670
718
490
90
59
339
183
353
94
941
316
93
48
264
84
334
97
179
47

4699
2088

Jun10
1471
783
1128
615
95
53
303
159
364
60
1079
322
122
21
272
81
554
106
381
79

5769
2299

Jul10
1218
576
1066
584
78
49
329
112
409
71
862
265
87
49
223
60
528
97
416
89

5216
1952

Aug10
1034
523
914
455
137
85
342
141
378
67
934
251
98
43
222
48
559
128
340
61

4958
1802

Sep10
1042
524
931
507
62
38
385
198
483
75
686
215
96
42
255
60
505
104
333
61

4778
1824

Oct10
1068
612
858
575
97
69
334
154
461
84
879
265
114
58
214
78
512
128
252
71

4789
2094

Nov10
803
465
584
365
97
60
340
159
325
72
746
202
117
69
200
85
425
157
150
45

3787
1683

Dec10
684
438
596
402
107
79
323
139
335
73
552
170
100
60
178
71
399
149
108
31

3382
1612

2010













Jan11
548
345
579
377
123
89
286
150
427
78
459
134
84
34
183
54
403
129
149
35

3241
1425

Feb11
492
260
574
288
117
79
265
137
372
52
359
152
103
45
162
46
342
108
102
21

2888
1158

Mar11
545
262
584
287
138
93
320
171
522
64
331
105
124
62
201
51
416
118
136
35

3317
1248

Apr11
510
248
639
330
135
95
325
199
509
66
109
49
111
57
224
70
475
142
56
18

3093
1274


May11
1084
582
554
294
107
35
319
204
438
69
70
39
109
55
168
63
364
94
123
47

3336
1482

Jun11
995
360
593
261
108
61
319
162
454
50
44
13
117
61
176
46
236
46
107
28

3149
1088

Jul11
1183
535
647
300
14
5
302
167
428
56
363
76
154
73
142
39
153
44
68
24

3454
1319

Aug11
708
368
534
276
94
60
328
180
475
69
349
75
118
69
184
71
166
52
87
32

3043
1252

Sep11
901
282
581
184
75
33
253
80
322
28
173
13
163
46
190
43
704
115
59
6

3431
830

Oct11
637
289
571
300
83
40
229
115
486
61
237
46
127
61
114
36
502
187
112
28

3098
1163

Nov11
694
454
423
296
103
78
186
139
365
74
294
95
133
92
162
87
443
215
74
30

2877
1560

Dec11
860
588
597
451
94
53
219
152
484
111
317
105
119
67
168
92
375
186
169
41

3402
1846

2011













Jan12
503
336
497
371
96
70
191
136
416
70
292
88
100
63
86
49
240
144
111
54

2532
1381

Feb12
555
376
502
381
97
75
218
152
178
51
199
57
104
70
102
56
398
193
209
81

2562
1492

Mar12
665
442
402
256
135
103
207
152
221
86
316
116
69
42
141
64
444
203
195
78

2795
1542

Apr12
621
340
588
416
122
84
271
190
217
66
326
86
94
44
57
20
406
166
192
91

2894
1503

May12
696
330
624
374
134
88
325
205
161
32
324
85
46
28
73
25
500
195
276
136

3159
1498

Jun12
878
447
760
464
106
54
302
201
248
67
322
87
54
22
157
46
504
217
209
87

3540
1692

Jul12
648
376
718
434
102
71
357
208
282
86
284
59
103
58
102
30
247
110
141
56

2984
1488

Aug12
437
275
677
347
100
74
396
218
288
67
323
84
73
21
134
47
319
140
104
42

2851
1315

Sep12











2678
1312

Oct12











2831
1582

Nov12
825
544
610
488
112
69
265
184
249
59
274
101
48
32
165
99
56
43
143
61

2747
1680

Dec12











2188
1232

2012













Jan13











2182
1179

Feb13











2386
1340

Mar13











2514
1363

Apr13











2863
1316

May13











0
0

Jun13











CLOSED

2013
[2]











5198

Cam #
A880
01
A880
03
B2ND
01
HEAS
01
INHU
01
INWH
01
MIIN
01
SCJA
01
WIHE
01
WIHE
03



[10]
"A"
&
880
Wbd
or
Ebd


[6]
"A"
&
880
Wbd
or
Ebd


[6]
"B"
&
2nd


Wbd

Hes-
perian
&
"A"

Nbd

Indus-
trial
&
Hunt-
wood
Ebd

Indus-
trial
&
Whip-
ple
Nbd

Mis-
sion
&
Indus-
trial
Nbd
Santa
Clara
&
Jack-
son
Nbd
Win-
ton
&
Hes-
perian
Wbd
or
Ebd
[6]
Win-
ton
&
Hes-
perian
Wbd
or
Ebd
[6]
Total
Cites
Issued
as %
of
Recorded

Total
Recorded/
Issued





[1] [4]


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
  Nov11 - Aug12
Sep12 - Dec12
Jan12 - Feb13
Mar13 - May13

[  ]  indicates a footnote.
  [1]  Totals and any percentages are as provided by the City.
  [2]  Annual total, or projection, is by highwayrobbery.net.
[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.)


Grand Terrace late times bar chart
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.


Yellow 1 Sec. Longer Would Reduce Violations by 63%.

Using data from these bar graphs, a local resident produced a spreadsheet showing that lengthening the A880 yellows by one second would reduce violations by 63%.

In 2013 the City provided monthly counts, for 2010 - 2012, of the number of right turn tickets issued.



Bar graphs are available for more than fifty 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 have been cost neutral.  In Exhibit D the first of two paragraphs numbered "3" spoke of balances remaining unpaid "due to a deficit in the gross cash received as described herein…."  But I could not 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 (approximate) info:  Each month 500 motorists are sent a Notice to Appear (a real ticket), and 730 motorists are sent a fake ticket (Snitch Ticket).
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."


Program closed May 1, 2013.

The
staff report that the police presented at the March 5 meeting discussed three options and recommended Option 1, phasing the cameras out over the next two years.

Under that phase out option, a camera would have been shut off once it reached five years old.  The staff report's Table 1 shows when the cameras were installed.

Hayward install dates and max. cost to remove
                early
To this table from the report we have added a column to show the maximum cost to remove each camera if removal is done in early March 2013

Under the phase out option, the two cameras at A/880, which have been responsible for about 2/3 of all tickets citywide, would have remained in operation for two more years during which they would cost the public $17 million in fines.

Option 2

  Option 2 discussed in the staff report (page 11) was immediate termination of the program - no gradual phase out.  It was not the option the police preferred - they wanted the gradual phase out, mostly to give them extra time to find other tasks for the clerical staff which was processing the tickets.

 At the March 5 meeting, the City Council voted 6 - 1 to remove the cameras "as soon as possible."  The formula in Exhibit D of the
contract says the City will have to pay RedFlex a penalty for each camera removed, based upon the original cost to install the camera and how much of its five-year life remains. 

Using the formula, the cost to remove a camera could be as high as the figures highwayrobbery.net has added to the right of Table 1, above.  However, the staff report says (page 11) that based upon figures provided by RedFlex' attorney, the total penalty for removal of all the cameras at the end of June 2013 would have been approximately $108,000, far less than the maximum.

Highwayrobbery.net estimates the additional penalty to shut the cameras down around the end of March would be $40,000 (using the Exh. D formula), or less, for a total penalty of $148,000 or less. 

There's enough tickets in the pipeline (already issued) so that in April, the first month after shuttting all ten cameras down, the city will recoup the penalty money (assuming 2/3 of ticket recipients pay up and that the city gets $150 per ticket).

The final decision was at the April 16 council meeting, and it was to close on May 1.




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
The Judges


I recommend doing a PC on Comm. Geoffrey Carter, who was sitting in Oakland but now may be in Fremont.




Hayward Docs Set # 6
Prevailing Wage Action

RedFlex' construction work in Hayward was the subject of a
Prevailing Wage action by the California Department of Industrial Relations.




Hayward Docs Set # 7
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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