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City of Ventura Documents
(and Information)

Ventura, pop. 101,000, is on the coast 53 miles west of Los Angeles.

Some of Ventura'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.

If you have a ticket from the City of Ventura, please be sure to contact me.

Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Violations Recorded and Citations Issued

New 11-22-04, updated 5-23-13

Cam #	BRJO	CATH	FOVI	JONB	MA10	MALE	MAMI	MIDE	MITG	TGDA	THSE	VIMO	VIOP	VIRA	VITG	VITP -01	VITP -03	VIVA
	Bris- tol @ John- son [6]	Calif. @ Thom- pson [6] [9]	Foot- hill @ Vic- toria [6]	John- son @ North- bank [6]	Main @ 101 [6]	Main @ Lemon Grove [6]	Main @ Mills [6]	Mills @ Dean [6]	Mills @ Tele- graph [6]	Tele- graph @ Day [6]	Thom- pson @ Sea- ward [6]	Vic- toria @ Moon [6]	Vic- toria @ Olivas Park [6]	Vic- toria @ Rals- ton [6]	Vic- toria @ Tele- graph [6]	Vic- toria @ Tele- phone [6]	Vic- toria @ Tele- phone [6]	Vic- toria @ Valen- tine [6]	[3]	Total Cites Issued as % of Recorded	Total Re- corded/ Issued [1]
Jan01
Feb01
Mar01
Apr01
May01
Jun01
Jul01
Aug01
Sep01
Oct01
Nov01
Dec01
2001																					8212 3338
Jan02																					1043 555
Feb02
Mar02
Apr02
May02
Jun02
Jul02																					1154 572
Aug02
Sep02
Oct02
Nov02
Dec02
2002
Jan03																					953 445
Feb03
Mar03
Apr03
May03
Jun03
Jul03																					1149 594
Aug03
Sep03
Oct03	6		15	14		29	6	58	7	5	28	31	33	25	46	73	10	42			753 428
Nov03
Dec03
2003
Jan04																					925 414
Feb04
Mar04
Apr04
May04
Jun04
Jul04																					860 406
Aug04
Sep04
Oct04	4		9	5	97	14	13	20	6	5	30	14	37	13	52	61	36	13			698 429
Nov04
Dec04
2004
Jan05																					897 481
Feb05
Mar05
Apr05
May05
Jun05
Jul05																					869 255
Aug05
Sep05
Oct05
Nov05
Dec05
2005
Jan06																					852 398
Feb06
Mar06
Apr06
May06
Jun06
Jul06																					982 328
Aug06
Sep06
Oct06
Nov06
Dec06
2006
Jan07																					836 429
Feb07
Mar07
Apr07
May07
Jun07
Jul07																					828 373
Aug07
Sep07
Oct07
Nov07
Dec07
2007
Jan08	9 3	53 31	17 10	7 5	98 80	35 21	23 7	40 12	1130 32	9 6	29 14	71 40	12 5	54 13	81 52	46 21	66 57	53 23			1833 432
Feb08		68 32							1012 85												1660 416
Mar08		61 28							959 140												1761 619
Apr08		43 21							1028 145												1708 491
May08		0							909 149												1538 477
Jun08		0							602 119												1360 449
Jul08	15 0	565 215	19 4	15 12	64 41	60 25	12 4	52 8	814 121	14 4	48 24	64 35	40 6	52 21	59 26	46 13	48 26	64 28			2051 613
Aug08		713 270							865 113												2316 730
Sep08		459 192							781 170												1926 712
Oct08		463 228							744 178												1952 854
Nov08		515 268							602 131												1793 841
Dec08		573 273							709 140												1786 741
2008
Jan09	16 4	480 284	15 7	6 3	41 27	45 38	15 6	36 19	504 94	8 4	16 13	58 28	26 13	7 3	35 18	48 41	37 27	62 29			1455 658
Feb09		389 207							274 88												1093 542
Mar09		454 187							323 101												1270 563
Apr09		513 170							327 69												1333 481
May09		496 186							281 92												1274 509
Jun09		467 158							272 66												1222 453
Jul09 [9]	3 1	152 56	14 8	13 8	55 31	38 18	20 5	53 22	320 95	6 1	22 7	46 28	13 8	27 12	23 5	19 11	55 39	53 20			931 375
Aug09		96 33							281 85												867 370
Sep09		88 24																			827 367
Oct09		56 18																			853 401
Nov09		69 17																			795 350
Dec09		80 26																			830 431
2009
Jan10		76 28																			689 325
Feb10		70 22																			699 365
Mar10		76 27																			844 426
Apr10		83 27																			837 388
May10		88 17																			909 382
Jun10		99 29																			783 336
Jul10		103 35																			794 360
Aug10		100 28																			873 411
Sep10		66 9																			805 347
Oct10		74 24																			762 375
Nov10	10 6	47 15	13 8	10 4	55 44	25 16	35 17	38 17	124 63	6 6	14 6	49 26	33 22	15 8	23 16	35 22	38 27	48 19			618 342
Dec10
2010
Jan11		73 21							247 105												750 402
Feb11		62 13							234 66												683 317
Mar11		81 25							252 84												779 375
Apr11		95 29							25 85												786 366
May11		49 14							232 78												783 392
Jun11		68 26							252 91												786 381
Jul11		76 24							267 82												815 348
Aug11		76 24							285 85												959 426
Sep11		64 14							242 113												814 424
Oct11	3 1	24 0	19 10	6 4	72 50	24 21	35 18	47 23	801 124	11 7	18 10	53 31	35 24	20 10	50 35	40 20	42 36	46 26			1346 450
Nov11		112 12							212 64												890 377
Dec11		148 38							35 21												848 417
2011
Jan12		139 48							40 29												760 351
Feb12		183 66							66 34												824 368
Mar12		152 40							75 47												811 353
Apr12		173 35							77 40												807 281
May12		172 48							62 30												853 343
Jun12		203 32							57 30												863 326
Jul12	10 4	206 62	13 2	16 9	54 28	28 9	44 12	79 23	57 31	24 3	36 26	22 13	24 10	38 21	36 23	33 21	46 33	68 21			834 356
Aug12	16 3	180 54	18 4	17 9	78 45	36 19	35 14	98 19	58 33	12 4	43 27	45 19	21 9	46 27	51 21	38 24	67 48	80 33			939 412
Sep12		172 46							56 31												910 392
Oct12																					906 416
Nov12																					833 378
Dec12																					757 346
2012
Jan13																					782 309
Feb13																					776 331
Mar13																					857 418
Apr13																					822 402
May13
Jun13
Jul13
Aug13
Sep13
Oct13
Nov13
Dec13
2013
Cam #	BRJO	CATH [9]	FOVI	JONB	MA10	MALE	MAMI	MIDE	MITG	TGDA	THSE	VIMO	VIOP	VIRA	VITG	VITP -01	VITP -03	VIVA

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official monthly reports of citations actually issued.

Official reports, 2001 - Jul07
Official reports, Sep09 - Nov10
Official reports, Jan11 - Sep12
Official reports, Sep12 - Apr13

[ ] 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] 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. 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). Due to time limitations data may have been posted to the table only for selected months or locations. If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months or locations will be posted. Full official data has been received and is available at one of the links given above.
[5] The official report for this month was produced just a few days after the end of the month, so the number of Notices Printed indicated in the report will be lower than the number eventually printed.
[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.
[9] See Set # 3, below.

Docs Set # 2
Ventura Owes RedFlex $1.7 Million +

Ventura's main contract (staff report) with RedFlex (signed May 2006) includes an illegal "cost neutrality" clause, whereby the city does not have to pay RedFlex the full monthly rent (the so-called "fixed fee") if there aren't enough fines to cover the cost. See Subsection B. of Defect # 10.

The 2006 contract did not require Ventura to ticket rolling rights, and the City chose - correctly - to give it very little emphasis. Because of the resulting low fine revenue (combined with the cost neutral terms), by late 2008 Ventura had paid RedFlex $1.7 million less than the cumulative "fixed fee" - money that RedFlex probably never will be able to collect. See the clause and the invoices here.

In Nov. 2008 the contract was amended to penalize the City should it choose not to enforce right-hand turn violation:

5. Cost neutrality is guaranteed except as follows:

[If] The city fails to enforce right turn violations (from automated red light violations), in good faith and due diligence, if and when systems are configured for this purpose as mutually agreed between Redflex and the City.

Invoices and other documents covering March 2013 showed that in that sample month the City received $36,865 in fines from the court, kept $20,472 to cover its "Customer Operating Costs" (per Exh. D of the contract) and paid the remaining $16,392 to RedFlex, which had billed the City $37,908 (18 cameras at $2106 each).

This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of May 22, 2013.

Docs Set # 3
Grand Jury Report Recommends Longer Yellows

In June 2009 the Ventura County Grand Jury issued a report recommending the the yellow at the California/Thompson intersection be lengthened.
The Calif./Thompson ticket counts for July 2009 onward (see table above) show a reduced ticket volume, which will make it more difficult for the City to pay off the debt it owes RedFlex.
See article (including link to the report).

Docs Set # 4
"Late Time" Bar Graphs

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

Jul. 2002: BRJO - MITG
Jul. 2002: TGDA - VIVA

Jul. 2010: BRJO - MITG
Jul. 2010: TGDA - VIVA

Jul. 2012: BRJO - MITG
Jul. 2012: TGDA - VIVA

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

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!

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