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Rancho Cordova Documents

Some of Rancho Cordova's tickets can possibly be ignored.  If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is what I call a "Snitch Ticket."  For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

Do you live in the South end of Alameda County or the North end of Santa Clara County - State Sen. Ellen Corbett's former District?

In late 2014 Sen. Corbett termed out, and was replaced by this person

 

  Wieckowski, Author of the anti-motorist bills SB 1 and AB 666

who will be running for re-election the State Senate in 2022 if his current run for Alameda County Supervisor doesn't work out.

In March 2020 please don't vote for him for Supervisor.

Send him back home to his bankruptcy law practice.

As of 2019 he still is in the State Legislature in Sacramento and was the author of SB 246 of 2019 (had it passed it would have added a 10% tax to each barrel of oil).
He was co-author of SB 1 which raised gas tax and car registration fees beginning Nov. 2017 and which was the subject of an attempted repeal, by Prop. 6 on the Nov. 2018 ballot.  In 2013 he was the author of AB-666 which - had it passed - would have increased the number of red light camera tickets. 
Before reaching the Legislature he was a member of the Fremont City Council, and during his time on the council he approved two extensions of Fremont's contract with RedFlex:  He was the maker of the 2005 motion to extend the contract to 2010, and in 2010 he made the motion to extend the contract to June 2017.

Rancho Cordova Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Total Violations, Notices Printed [4]

(The first camera went live on Dec.12, 2012.)

Chart updated on 6-12-20

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

Official report, Nov. 2012 - Mar. 2013
Official reports, Feb. & Mar. 2013
Official reports, Jan. - Apr. 2013
Official reports, May. 2013 - Feb. 2014
Official report, Mar. - July 2014 [10]
Official reports, 2014 - 2015
Official reports, late 2015
Official report, Dec. 2015
Official reports, early 2016
Official report, July 2016
Official reports, Aug. & Sep. 2016
Official reports, Oct. & Nov. 2016
Official reports, 2016 - July 2017
Official report, Aug. 2017
Official reports, Sep. & Oct. 2017
Official reports, 2017 - 2018
Official reports, 2018 - early 2019
Official reports, late 2019

[  ] indicates a footnote.
[1]  Totals are as provided by the City.
[2]  These annual totals, or projections, are by highwayrobbery.net.
[3]  Un-used columns are to allow for later expansion of City's system.
[4]  Except where noted otherwise, the figures given in the table are for the single calendar month indicated.  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 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]  Includes enforcement of posted "no turn on red" signs.
[8]  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.
[9]  The official report for this month was generated just a few days after the end of the month, so may not show the full quantity of tickets eventually issued for the month.
[10]  Highwayrobbery.net received a single report covering this five-month period.
[11]  New camera installed June 2015 - see Set # 5, below.
[12]  From the annual reports required, beginning with 2013, by CVC 21455.5(i).  They become available by the Fall of the following year.
[13]  For source documents see Set # 14 on the Sacramento Docs page.

An official report showed that in 2014, 88% of the City's tickets were for right turns.

In May 2016 a report prepared by RedFlex for another client disclosed that 72% of Rancho Cordova's tickets go to visitors.

Rancho Cordova Docs Set # 3
Accident Stats Don't Add Up - But It Will Make Big Bucks

Rancho Cordova Docs Set # 4
"Late Time" Graphs

The City provided bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera.
These RedFlex Redlight Offender Statistics ("RROS") 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.

  Three months of operation

Oct. 2013

July 2014

The City has denied all 2015 and later public records requests for RROS, claiming:  "We do not use or run the 'offender' report."

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

Rancho Cordova Docs Set # 5
The Contract - Paying Way Too Much

In Feb. 2010 the city council adopted 4 - 1 (Ayes: Budge, McGarvey, Sander, Skoglund; Nay: Cooley) a resolution allowing the city manager to negotiate and sign a contract with RedFlex. 
In Feb. 2011 the city council adopted 3 - 1 (Ayes: Budge, McGarvey, Skoglund; Nay: Cooley; Absent: Sander) a resolution with revised payment terms.

Published Notice for the Public Hearing
Feb. 2010 Draft Contract (See Link Below for Copy of the Feb. 2010 Staff Report)
Feb. 2010 Minutes
Feb. 2011 Staff Report and Draft Contract (Includes Copy of Feb. 2010 Staff Report)
Feb. 2011 Minutes
Feb. 2011 Signed Contract

The contract may be cost neutral, as it includes (in its Exhibit D) an adjustment for "financial insolvency."  See Subsection B. of Defect # 10.

The first cameras went live on Dec. 12, 2012.

The contract also says:  Definitions.  "Warning Period" means a period after the Installation Date of the first intersection approach, wherein only warning notices shall be issued...."  (Emphasis added.)  See Defect # 6.

2015:  Five More Years, New Cameras, and Paying Too Much

In Mar. 2015 the City signed a contract amendment extending the program for five years.

The City agreed to pay WAY too much.  In March 2014 the City of Elk Grove approved a new contract which specified the following schedule of rents for their five RedFlex cameras.

Imaged from Exh. D of the Elk Grove (California) Contract

Under the amended contract, Rancho Cordova will pay $280,960 extra (compared to the Elk Grove rents) over the five years 2015 - 2020, and will need to issue an extra 2810 tickets in order to cover that extra rent (assuming that the City gets $150 from each paid ticket and that 2/3 of tickets are paid). To see more about how much other cities pay, see FAQ # 17.

Other major problems with the 2015 amendment:

1.  The amendment provides for two one-year extensions, which are to occur automatically unless the City gives RedFlex 30 days prior notice that it does not wish to extend.  If the City misses the deadlines to give notice, the contract could extend to 2022 without a reduction in price.
(Contract extensions should never be automatic!)

2.  The 2015 amendment deleted Section 6.2 of the 2011 contract, which was entitled Termination without Cause.  Thus, there no longer is an escape clause (also known as Termination for Convenience) - something commonly found in other cities' contracts - and the City is locked in until 2020 and cannot cancel or get a better price.

In June 2015 the sheriff announced the installation of two new cameras on Sunrise.

This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of Feb. 12, 2019.

Rancho Cordova Docs Set # 7
Info on City's Website

In Jan. 2018 we found this page at the police department's website.

Rancho Cordova Docs Set # 8
Operating With No Rules, Guidelines, Controls, Audits?

On June 15, 2018 I sent a public records request, including the following, to the City and the Sheriff:

On July 9 the City provided eight documents in response to other parts of the request, such as monthly totals of the tickets issued by each camera; there were no documents responsive or related to the "P" items above. 

Rancho Cordova Docs Set # 9
More Coming

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

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