DMV says traffic school once every 18, but ticket
07-18-2003, 01:25 PM
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DMV says traffic school once every 18, but ticket
DMV says the point will be taken off, but they could use it to suspensd me.
Ticket Assasin says that is the judge allows you to go, then the point will be taken off & you have a clean record. It says one person attended 11 times in 1 year & has a clean record.
Traffic School Frequency: Once every 18 months?
The law allows you to attend traffic school once every 18 months for a traffic infraction. Upon completion of traffic school, your citation is recorded as a dismissal on your confidential driving record. Your confidential record can only be viewed by the courts, law enforcement, and the DMV. Your insurance company does not get to see your confidential record. If you attend traffic school no more than once every 18 months, no note that the citation ever occurred is made on your public driving record.
If you receive another infraction within 18 months from your last traffic school attendance, you will not be automatically eligible to attend. However, if the court is not aware of this previous attendance, it will usually assign you to traffic school again. Even if the court knows that you've attended traffic school within 18 months, the judges have wide discretion in this and will often send you to traffic school again within 18 months. Why? Each time you attend traffic school, the court collects an additional $24 to $30 fee in addition to your bail. The court gets to keep this fee and this fee can only be legally collected if you are assigned to traffic school.
If the court denies you the favor of a second traffic school, you can respond by exercising your legal right to contest your citation; this will cost the court money. When you contest, the court has to pay the citing officer overtime ($200-300) and also has to pay the judge, bailiff and court clerks to run your trial. This adds up to several hundred dollars per case. In most cases, the court would rather play nice, let you attend traffic school again, and make $100-300 from your fine plus $24 for traffic school. This is why most courts have no problem reassigning repeat offenders to traffic school. I know scores of students who have attended traffic school three to four times in a single year. One former traffic school student of mine attended class 11 times in two years. Due to her attendance, not a single conviction had been recorded on her DMV record. Yes, she had a "clean" record.
If the court allows you to attend traffic school more than once in 18 months, the DMV will record this second "dismissal" on both your confidential and public driving records. Though your insurance company will know you were cited and attended traffic school, they can not legally raise your rates. Insurance rates can only be increased if a guilty conviction or at-fault accident is recorded on your public record. A dismissal, whether recorded publicly or confidentially, can never be used to increase your rates.
Ticket Assasin says that is the judge allows you to go, then the point will be taken off & you have a clean record. It says one person attended 11 times in 1 year & has a clean record.
Traffic School Frequency: Once every 18 months?
The law allows you to attend traffic school once every 18 months for a traffic infraction. Upon completion of traffic school, your citation is recorded as a dismissal on your confidential driving record. Your confidential record can only be viewed by the courts, law enforcement, and the DMV. Your insurance company does not get to see your confidential record. If you attend traffic school no more than once every 18 months, no note that the citation ever occurred is made on your public driving record.
If you receive another infraction within 18 months from your last traffic school attendance, you will not be automatically eligible to attend. However, if the court is not aware of this previous attendance, it will usually assign you to traffic school again. Even if the court knows that you've attended traffic school within 18 months, the judges have wide discretion in this and will often send you to traffic school again within 18 months. Why? Each time you attend traffic school, the court collects an additional $24 to $30 fee in addition to your bail. The court gets to keep this fee and this fee can only be legally collected if you are assigned to traffic school.
If the court denies you the favor of a second traffic school, you can respond by exercising your legal right to contest your citation; this will cost the court money. When you contest, the court has to pay the citing officer overtime ($200-300) and also has to pay the judge, bailiff and court clerks to run your trial. This adds up to several hundred dollars per case. In most cases, the court would rather play nice, let you attend traffic school again, and make $100-300 from your fine plus $24 for traffic school. This is why most courts have no problem reassigning repeat offenders to traffic school. I know scores of students who have attended traffic school three to four times in a single year. One former traffic school student of mine attended class 11 times in two years. Due to her attendance, not a single conviction had been recorded on her DMV record. Yes, she had a "clean" record.
If the court allows you to attend traffic school more than once in 18 months, the DMV will record this second "dismissal" on both your confidential and public driving records. Though your insurance company will know you were cited and attended traffic school, they can not legally raise your rates. Insurance rates can only be increased if a guilty conviction or at-fault accident is recorded on your public record. A dismissal, whether recorded publicly or confidentially, can never be used to increase your rates.
