City of Edmonton officials have released a report in response to a City Councillor’s questions regarding automated photo radar, but the report leaves out some key details.

The report, set to go before the Transportation Committee Thursday, responds to inquiries in early October, from Councillors Amarjeet Sohi and Dave Loken over photo radar.

However, the 10-page report doesn’t outline the number of tickets issued to drivers seen going less than 5 kilometres, or 10 kilometres per hour over the speed limit.

In response to the question on the number of tickets issued in those cases, the report only states that “the number of tickets issued depends on the number of motorists exceeding the posted speed limit,” and “peace officers will not issue a ticket to a motorist unless they are reasonably certain that the motorist has in fact exceeded the posted speed,” citing factors such as equipment accuracy, conditions and “other factors”.

The report goes on to say “specific details…should properly be discussed by Council in private as they may involve matters of legal advice.”

That question was one of several posed by Sohi and Loken, other inquiries included asking how many radar vehicles are deployed on an average day, how deployment locations are determined, and how revenues go to help improve traffic safety.

Officials said specific numbers would be released, but not to the public. Mayor Don Iveson said it will be up to lawyers to decide what should be released.

“Lawyers are going to be giving information in private about what we should and shouldn’t disclose,” Iveson said. “Releasing certain kinds of information without the right context will look like a licence to speed.”

However, one of the councillors who asked the original questions doesn’t agree.

“To me it does not seem unreasonable to share that information,” Councillor Amarjeet Sohi said. “All we’ve got to do is share the information based on the number of tickets at certain speeds.”

In 2013, about 3 percent of tickets handed out were 10 kilometres or less over the posted limit, none were issued for 15 kilometres per hour over the speed limit – and most were for drivers going faster than 16 kilometres per hour over the limit.

“I have yet to actually see with my own eyes a ticket that anyone’s got between 6 and 9 kilometres per hour [over the limit],” Iveson said.

Iveson said he plans to push to make the new data public, as long as it doesn’t pose legal issues or send the wrong message to drivers.

“We still have a significant speeding problem in our city,” Iveson said.

In the report, officials said revenues go towards advertising school zones, paying for education programs and buying “traffic safety awareness signs”.

The report also states photo radar has played a role in reducing speeding on certain roadways, such as Anthony Henday Drive.

With files from Dan Grummett and Nicole Weisberg