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City of Modesto Documents
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Modesto, pop. 206,000, is 90 miles east of San Francisco.

The City's contract with RedFlex was signed on June 8, 2004, and includes a "cost neutrality" clause, whereby the city will not have to pay RedFlex the full rent if there aren't enough fines to cover the cost.  (For otherOther cities with similar clauses see Subsection B of Defect # 10, on the Home page.)

Many RedFlex towns send out "Snitch Tickets," which you can ignore.  A Snitch Ticket will not have the Superior Court's name and address on it.  For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

Tentative turn-on of system was Dec. 1, 2004.  A MPD staff report to the city council is at:  2004 Staff Report.

Here is some information from a MPD press release of Feb. 23, 2005:

"Red light cameras are scheduled to be turned on at the intersection of Sisk Road and Standiford Avenue on March 1st. Installation and planning at other key intersections in the City of Modesto is underway. The contract with Redflex allows the installation of up to 10 systems, some of which are underway. The program will be self-funded by the revenue generated by fines. The fine for each violation is $340, of that, $149.75 returns to the City of Modesto. This revenue will be used to pay the $6,030 monthly fee charged by RedFlex to maintain each intersection. “This project is intended to be cost neutral to the taxpayers of Modesto,” said Lieutenant Dan Inderbitzen, Traffic Unit Commander.
Signs will be posted at each intersection equipped with the cameras, notifying motorists of the enforcement."

Here is a Feb. 2007 staff report from the police to the City Council's Safety Committee, showing an increase in collision injuries at 3 of the 4 monitored locations:  2007 Staff Report.

A June 2009 staff report discussed renewal of the contract, the contract's cost-neutral provisions, project income, and planned new camera locations - which are shown on the map, below.

Docs Set # 1
Maps of Locations

This map shows the locations as of Nov. 2009:

Docs Set # 2
Ticket Counts

Total Violations Recorded (some months), and Notices Printed [4]

New 11-13-05

Cam #

BRPR 01

OABR 01

STSI 01

TUST 01

Briggsmore & Prescott [6]

Oakdale & Briggsmore [6]

Standiford & Sisk [6]

Tully & Standiford [6]

[3]

Total Notices Printed as % of Violations Recorded

Total Violations Recorded/ Notices Printed [1]  [7]

Jan05

Feb05

Mar05

Apr05

May05

Jun05

Jul05

Aug05

Sep05

Oct05  [7]

519 260

2636 873

2456 957

439 175

37%

6050 2265

Nov05

Dec05

2005

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official documents obtained under the California Public Records Act.
[  ] 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]  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 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 Nominations mailed (not filed with the court, a.k.a. Snitch Tickets).

[5]  Data has been requested but has not yet been received.
[6]  The camera enforcement is on traffic on the first-named street, but the direction of enforcement (north, south, east, west, thru, left) is not yet available.
[7]  Data shown covers Mar. 1 to Nov. 1, 2005.  A month-by-month breakdown has been requested.