By admin 
The Elk Grove City Council unanimously approved five new red-light cameras in the city and increased its contract with the camera provider by more than $2.35 million as the city expands a traffic enforcement program that other Sacramento-area jurisdictions have scaled back in recent years.
Read more Gavin Newsom to travel to Deep South on campaign, voting rights tour
The five new camera locations are westbound Laguna Boulevard at Bruceville Road, southbound Elk Grove Florin Road at Sheldon Road, northbound Franklin Boulevard at Elk Grove Boulevard, southbound Elk Grove Boulevard at Franklin Boulevard and southbound Bruceville Road at Laguna Boulevard.
An existing camera monitoring westbound traffic at Bruceville Road and Elk Grove Boulevard will be moved to monitor northbound traffic at the intersection.
Red-light cameras are currently located at Elk Grove Florin Road and Bond Road, Laguna Boulevard and Franklin Boulevard, Laguna Boulevard and Bruceville Road and Laguna Boulevard and Laguna Springs Drive, according to the city’s website.
The city’s contract with red-light camera provider Redflex Traffic Systems was extended through August 2031. The city first entered into a contract with Phoenix-based Redflex in 2007,
» Elk Grove news in your inbox: Get our free Elk Grove email newsletter here
The red-light cameras are a “tool” for officers and part of the city’s “broader traffic safety strategy,” Elk Grove Police Chief Robert Davis said at the City Council meeting Wednesday. The new locations were selected based on collision data, traffic volume and projected red-light violation activity, the report said.
The city recorded 984 collisions in 2023, rising to 1,125 in 2024 and 1,248 in 2025, Davis said. There were five traffic fatalities in 2023, six in 2024, nine in 2025 and six so far in 2026. Five of those fatal collisions involved pedestrians.
The five intersections with the most collisions in the city are Laguna Boulevard and Bruceville Road, Elk Grove Boulevard and Franklin Boulevard, Calvine Road and Elk Grove Florin Road, Laguna Boulevard and Franklin Boulevard and Whitelock Parkway and Franklin Boulevard, according to Davis’ report.
The red-light cameras are not a significant source of revenue for the city, Davis told council members.
Read more California must include Latino families in homeownership | Opinion
The city received more than $369,000 in revenue from red-light camera citations in 2025 and spent more than $316,000 on the cameras and a police department red-light enforcement technician, according to the staff report.
The department’s broader traffic safety strategy also includes targeted enforcement in high-collision areas, an increased police presence near schools during dismissal and additional staffing for the department’s traffic unit, Davis said.
Elk Grove’s expansion comes about two years after the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office shut down its red-light camera program at 24 intersections. Sheriff’s officials said in 2024 that citation revenue was not covering the cost of the program, which had been intended to be cost-neutral.
The city of Sacramento, meanwhile, is now considering a new automated red-light enforcement program of its own, with cameras proposed at 20 intersections and a potential launch in spring 2027. The proposal follows changes to state law that allow participating jurisdictions to issue civil violations to vehicle owners under a system with lower fines and new privacy requirements.
Elk Grove’s program differs from a new automated red-light enforcement system allowed under recently enacted Senate Bill 720.
That proposed program uses a new enforcement framework authorized by Senate Bill 720 that differs from Elk Grove’s existing system. Violations under the new system are civil penalties issued to a vehicle’s registered owner, with fines starting at $100. The law also prohibits cameras from photographing drivers or using facial recognition.
Ticket Snipers, a traffic citation dismissal company that tracks red-light cameras statewide, lists the fine for a first offense at Elk Grove camera locations at $486.
Read more California bill seeks to protect voter participation, if primary proposal prevails