Overview
- Warning notices begin immediately, with mailed citations starting March 15 and fines ranging from $50 to $500 based on speed.
- Low-income drivers qualify for reduced penalties and a community service option is available in lieu of paying fines.
- Locations were chosen using crash and speed data on streets that account for most severe and fatal collisions, where the city says two people are killed or seriously injured each week.
- Oakland becomes the second participant in the state’s six-city pilot after San Francisco, which reported 16,500 tickets in its first month and a sharp drop in extreme speeding at high-risk intersections.
- By law, revenue from citations must fund traffic safety improvements, and officials say the new camera data will not be shared with the Flock license-plate reader system.