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Check what traffic school can do for your ticket.

Pick your state, the violation and the date on the ticket. Points Clear applies the rule your state publishes and shows whether a course can dismiss the ticket, keep its points off your record, take points off, or do nothing for it.

  • Eligible
  • Points off
  • Insurance only
  • Not eligible

Your ticket

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Pick the closest match.

mph

Ticketed speed minus the posted limit. Speeding tickets only.

mph

Some states close the course above a set speed, such as 95 mph in Texas, or at double the limit in Utah.

The day the ticket was written. Leave it as today if you are not sure.

More about you and this ticketLicense, vehicle, crash, earlier course
Is your license from this state?
Vehicle

Commercial means a vehicle that needs a CDL or is used for work.

Alcohol or drugs involved?

The day you finished it, in any state. Leave empty if you never took one.

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Court
Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles
Ticket
Speeding, 15 mph over
Written
October 4, 2026
Eligible

Eligible under the published rule. Finishing traffic school holds the conviction confidential, so the point stays off the record insurers see.

Court fee $64

Rule: Traffic school, California Courts Self Help Guide (opens in a new tab)

A real check on the rules checked in October 2026. Keep your ticket next to you: the state, the violation, the speed, the date and the court are printed on it.

Every check ends in one of four answers

Each answer comes with the rules behind it and a link to the page each rule comes from. Color, icon and word always agree.

  1. Eligible

    Dismissed, or points kept off

    Your ticket meets every published limit of a program that dismisses it, or that keeps its points off your record. How the ticket shows afterwards differs by state, and the answer says it in that state's terms, with the deadline to ask and the fee where one is published.

    11 of the 51 state rules can lead here.

  2. Points off

    Points come off, the ticket stays

    The conviction stays on your record. Finishing a course takes points off your total, as many and as often as your state allows. A commercial license holder can also land here, where a state opens its dismissal program to them: federal law keeps the conviction.

    22 of the 51 state rules take points off.

  3. Insurance only

    No course program, a possible insurance discount

    Your state has no course that changes a ticket, but it publishes a voluntary course that can lower an insurance premium. Your insurer decides whether you get a discount and how much.

    6 of the 51 state rules lead here.

  4. Not eligible

    No course benefit for this ticket

    A published rule closes the course to this ticket, for example the speed, your license or a course you took too recently. Or your state publishes no program at all. The answer names the rule, and what you can still do.

    12 of the 51 state rules lead here: no program and no voluntary course (2 by our own reading).

Eligible, confirm with your court

When part of the rule depends on your court, or a fact the rule needs is not published, the answer carries Confirm with your court and names what to ask. A missing rule never counts as a yes.

Speak to a lawyer

Alcohol or drugs, a crash with an injury, hit and run, reckless driving or a suspended license: the answer is Speak to a lawyer, with no course and no provider.

Start from your state

Every state and Washington, DC has its own rule. Pick yours for the rule, the points and the sources, or see every state in one table and points by violation.

Rules read from official pages

We read state statutes, court rules and DMV pages, and print the source and the month we checked next to every rule. A rule that is not published shows as not published, and a gap never counts as a yes.

How the checker worksThe rules and their sources

Mind the deadline

Many programs give you a set number of days to ask for the course, and some count them from the date on your ticket. Where the rule counts from that date, the answer gives the last day.

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Points Clear is not a law firm, a court or a traffic school. Rules are checked against official sources on the date shown. Your citation and your court decide. Points Clear gives no legal advice and never tells you how to plead.

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