Changes to D.C.’s Ticket Alert Service (TAS) to streamline communications, give residents earlier notice about citations

By Ron Taylor,
Particular to the AFRO

The D.C. Division of Motor Automobiles (DC DMV) introduced open enrollment into an improved Ticket Alert Service (TAS) system on Jan. 4. This system updates will assist residents within the District of Columbia preserve monitor of motorized vehicle violations which have resulted in citations.

Previous to the introduction of the brand new system, if residents wished to make use of the TAS system they needed to have a ticket that was already on document. Now, residents will have the ability to use the TAS system even earlier than they obtain a ticket. Individuals who obtain a ticket within the District, however stay elsewhere, will nonetheless should have not less than one ticket on document prior to now 12 months and a half earlier than they’re allowed to make use of the TAS system.

“DC DMV has labored exhausting to streamline the TAS enrollment course of and make it as user-friendly as potential,” mentioned DC DMV Director Gabriel Robinson, in an announcement. “Now D.C. residents can enroll in TAS with out having a ticket on document and have entry to a wide range of ticket associated info.”

The TAS system is a digital providing that is freed from cost to the general public. The present visitors enforcement program is anticipated to yield $100 million in income for D.C. in fiscal 2023, together with $87.6 million from pace cameras.

In response to info launched by the D.C. DMV the replace to the system “offers customers with close to real-time notification of ticket-related exercise on as much as 4 autos and a single driver license. As soon as a driver has enrolled, they might log in to their account to test the standing of tickets.” 

The TAS system provides these enrolled the power to decide on how they’re contacted concerning citations. In response to the DC DMV, drivers can resolve in the event that they need to have alerts despatched by way of textual content or e-mail if the next takes place: 

• A ticket is issued to a automobile
• A ticket cost is utilized
• Earlier than a late penalty is utilized to a ticket
• Earlier than the deadline to adjudicate a ticket expires
• A call is made on an adjudicated ticket
• A ticketed automobile turns into boot eligible
• Earlier than a ticket is assigned to collections
• Updates on DC DMV packages and bulletins

Those that enroll will even have the ability to take a look at any photos that corroborate the violation and ticket historical past. The DC DMV experiences that members will have the ability to view “info contained within the ticket historical past file, corresponding to listening to requests and outcomes, funds, appeals, and previous correspondence. Customers may additionally entry hyperlinks to finish ticket funds and schedule hearings on-line.”

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