Yes, if you were driving your own personal vehicle at the time the citation was issued, you may attend traffic school.

Traffic School may be taken once every 18 months from violation date to violation date.

Your court will be able to provide you a total of 90 days to do traffic school.  Often if you go past 60 days you need to call the court to get a 30 day extension.  Policies vary per court.

Most traffic tickets can be settled through the mail. If you are unsure how to proceed with your ticket, please contact the court.

The answer depends on the infraction. The most serious violations (DUI, driving uninsured, etc.) result in two points, whereas the lesser violations generally result in one. Points are typically masked anywhere from three to ten years after the ticket was issued, depending on the infraction and your record.

Yes. If you attend a court-approved traffic school in California, you may be able to get your ticket masked. The court has an approved list of traffic schools for this purpose. Attending Traffic School  is a great way to remove unwanted points.

The citation should include instructions on what to do next. Your options are similar to a normal traffic ticket. You can agree to pay or try to fight it. If you were not the person driving the car when the photo was taken, for instance, you may be able to fight the

California’s correctable violation tickets allow you to fix the problem and either pay for the violation or prove you corrected the issue, depending on the directions given on your ticket. In the event you need to prove you fixed something, simply find a police officer, court clerk, or DMV agent and ask him or her to sign the part of your ticket labeled Certificate of Correction.

A Moving Violation is any violation of the law committed by the driver of a car while the car is in motion. Moving Violations put points on your driver’s license.

Parking tickets, fix-it tickets concerning the car equipment like broken lights, tinted windows or no front plate or paperwork violations relating to insurance or registration do NOT put points on your license.
Cellphone violations

The California Vehicle Code Section 1808.7 mandates that only one citation in an 18 month period be masked from public view on a driving record. The 18 month period is calculated from the citation/violation date, not the class attendance date.

After you pay your fine, points from your violation will appear publicly on your DMV record unless you attend traffic school. If the court allows you to attend traffic school and receives proof that you completed the class before the deadline, your points will be hidden from everyone except the court. While the points won’t be completely removed from your record, they won’t count toward point penalties. Plus, your points will NOT be disclosed to your insurance provider.

Your traffic citation will be extended for 90 days to allow attendance and completion of the traffic school at which point the citation will be masked.

No, the course continues where you last left off each time you log back on to it.

We submit your completion electronically to the court the same day you finish, we send you a copy for your records.  The court will not take traffic school completions except electronically from approved schools like ours.

No, parking tickets are not filed with the court. Don’t go to or call the court unless the parking agency has decided on your case and you want to appeal the agency’s decision.

Read your “Notice to Appear”. There you will find the name of the court that will decide your case, the deadline to pay the ticket or go to court, and what you must do to respond to the ticket. If you were under the age of 18 when you received the ticket, this information may be sent to you later by the court.