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City of Modesto Documents
(and Information)

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

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.

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 11-13-10

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

2005 official report, recd. 2005
2005 official reports, recd.  Nov. 2010
2005 - 2010 official reports, recd. Dec. 2010

[  ] 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, 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 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).
[5]  Data for these months was requested on....
[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]  Data shown covers Mar. 1 to Nov. 1, 2005.
[8]  Includes enforcement of posted "no turn on red" signs.

Docs Set # 2
"Late Time" Graphs

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

2005 - STSI & TUST only
2006 - TUST only
2006 - Other than TUST
2010

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

The City's contract with RedFlex includes an illegal "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 other cities with similar clauses see Subsection B of Defect # 10, on the Home page.)

The 2004 contract with RedFlex (staff report) set the monthly rent for each camera at $6030.
The seven-year contract renewal the city council approved in June 2009 reduced the monthly rent for each of the four existing cameras to $5500.  The 2009 staff report said that the new rate would save the City $24,000 per year. (The report also discussed planned new camera locations - which are shown on the map, above.)

Had the council negotiated a $4000 per-camera rent like that in the 2008 contract of the City of Santa Clarita, it could have saved $2030 per camera per month or, for all four cameras, a savings of $97,440 per year and $682,080 over the 7 years 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 $3230 per camera per month or, for all four cameras, a savings of $155,040 per year and $1,085,280 over the 7 years 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 $4630 per camera per month or, for all four cameras, a savings of $222,240 per year and $1,555,680 over the 7 years 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 $1,100,400.

Or, had the council negotiated a $2500 fee like that in the 2009 contract of the City of Davis, it could have saved $1,008,000.

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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."

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

Docs Set # 4
Info on MPD Site?

I could not find red light camera program info on the police department's website.

The MPD letter in reply to my Oct. 2010 records request contained a lot of information.

Docs Set # 5
More Coming

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