Archive for January, 2010
Chicago speeding tickets-new online option. Friday, January 29th, 2010
If you’ve been issued a Cook County speeding ticket or other traffic ticket, you can now pay or request a court hearing online.
Previously, anyone who received a speeding ticket or similar violation would have to either deal with payment or scheduling via mail or in person at one of the Clerk’s district locations.
All such services are a welcome convenience. Individuals can now respond to their traffic violations without worry about whether anything sent by mail was received and/or properly processed and without having to come in person and wait on line to perform a simple transaction.
A couple of things to note. First, the Clerk does charge a $5 fee per ticket for the convenience of using this website to pay your violations this way. In addition, you must be 18 years or older. Finally, it must be a “Court Diversion” ticket (one where a personal appearance is not required).
The website handles the following violations:
- Failure to wear a seat belt
- U-turn in intersection
- Failure to stop at a stop sign
- Disobey turn signal indicator
- Failure to yield to pedestrian in crosswalk
- Improper right turn
- Turn on red prohibited
Kent County, Michigan considering online traffic ticket payments Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
The Kent County Sheriff’s Department wants to use an $85,650 grant
from the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning to create an
automated system that would allow officers to electronically print
tickets and file reports from their cruisers.
The proposed system also would allow motorists to pay their fines online.
The reasons for building such a system are pretty straight forward.
It’s part convenience (easier for motorists and enforcement officers)
and part economic (more automation means fewer administrative clerks).
Submitted by Scott Feifer
