About nascop.com

This web site was created in hopes that the City of San Jose, CA will terminate the NASCOP program currently in operation due to numerous legal problems. The web site also seeks to inform the residents of San Jose on the legal issues concerning the NASCOP program.

What is the NASCOP program?
NASCOP stands for "Neighborhood Automated Speed Compliance Program. The program was created in 1998 by the city to help enforce vehicle speeding laws within the city. NASCOP is currently used on local San Jose streets that have a posted 25-30 m.p.h speed limit. Parked mini-vans, with a technician operating the controls, take photographs of the front and back of any vehicle going faster than the posted speed limit as well as the driver's face. The registered owner of the vehicle receives a notice of the incident through the USPS informing the owner that unless the owner can show using their California driver's license photograph that they were not the driver of the automobile then the city will be issuing them a citation for a speeding violation. The owner is either able to make an appoint to see the photographs at the city's Department of Transportation Office or mail a photocopy of the owner's driver's license. Department of Transportation staff look at the owner's driver's license photograph and try to match it with the photograph taken by the NASCOP technician. If the staff believes there is no match, the city drops the case. However, in the event the staff believes the two photos match, then the city issues the owner a citation through the mail.

Here is the only web page devoted to the program which happens to be apart of the city's web site:
City of San Jose's Department of Transportation's NASCOP

The NASCOP web page provides the city's description of the program as well as a brochure you can download as a PDF document.

nascop.com believes that the operation of the program is in direct violation of several state laws. If that is indeed the case, the program is costing the City, State, and residents of San Jose valuable tax payer money that could be directed to much more effective means of controlling vehicle speeds on the streets of the city not to mention other programs.

John Larson is the owner, webmaster, etc of nascop.com. He is a resident of San Jose, CA and the legal issues expressed on this site have upset him enough to do something about it. If you have any suggestions, advice, additional information, or just want to ask a question, please email John at email @ nascop.com or use the site's contact form.