Court/ticket question

[Iehooligan11b]

Maybe one of y’all have some experience with this or could give advice for how to go about this.
I received a window tint ticket from a State Trooper on July 27th and have an appear by date of August 27th. Called court on Jul 30 and it wasn’t in their system. The lady I spoke to said I could get it fixed and bring in a receipt and it will just be a $10 dismissal fee. Aug 4th I took it to shop to have windows stripped and retinted legal shade. I’ve been calling a few times a week to try to handle it and it’s still not showing up in system. I will be out of the continental US for several weeks starting on the 24th.
The court clerk said over the phone to just keep calling. I informed them about being out of town and they said I should be ok even if I’m a few days late. Just doesn’t seem too comforting ha. So any experience with anything like this?

[Olphart]

I'd stop calling and go the JP office as directed on the ticket. Take your receipt for correcting the violation with you. If they don't have it logged into their system, I'd call or go to the trooper's office and speak to the sergeant. It sounds like the trooper didn't turn it in.

Oh, and the date given is the deadline, not what a clerk tells you.

[Timemachine]

My son got a ticket for 42 in a 30 last fall. We called for months trying to get a court date. We were finally told that Hurricane Harvey destroyed so many court houses and flooded even more computers that it may be next year (2019) before they are anywhere close to getting all the tickets processed. So even a recent ticket is in a backlog and may not get posted to quite some time.

[Iehooligan11b]

That’s what I had asked. Was told if I showed up they wouldn’t be able to do anything without the ticket in the system. Lol I was specifically told not to go there. But I may try my luck if it still doesn’t show by next week.
I pulled up the ticket on the DPS site, so it seems as though it was turned in by the Trooper.

[sailor]

Paper trail...…..

[CEO]

Before I left town I would go down there and at least try to get something in writing. These little tickets can become a big issue.

I got an insurance ticket in a company truck years ago. The company hadn't given us our new cards yet and I got pulled over because my inspections sticker had too much paper on the back and was hanging from the bottom (officer couldn't see it). I took my new insurance card to the courthouse a few days later and the lady told me I was good to go. Fast forward 6 months and I getg a warrant for my arrest in the mail. Said they couldn't verify my insurance even though this is a company policy with probably 50 trucks on it. Cost me right under $1k to get it taken care of.

[Iehooligan11b]

Before I left town I would go down there and at least try to get something in writing. These little tickets can become a big issue.

I got an insurance ticket in a company truck years ago. The company hadn't given us our new cards yet and I got pulled over because my inspections sticker had too much paper on the back and was hanging from the bottom (officer couldn't see it). I took my new insurance card to the courthouse a few days later and the lady told me I was good to go. Fast forward 6 months and I getg a warrant for my arrest in the mail. Said they couldn't verify my insurance even though this is a company policy with probably 50 trucks on it. Cost me right under $1k to get it taken care of.

Dang, ha yeah I hope this doesn’t go that route.

[coy-ote]

Everything leaves a trail if you take it to the courthouse and anyone looks it up there is a trail of who logged into the system and who looked up anything with the court docket. So if you went to court and they later tell you everyone got amnesia there are also cameras in the municipal building ,phone records of you calling in and who logged in to check it for you. Don’t know about other departments but we had to turn in our tickets and reports at the end of the shift , later we docked our electronic ticket writers and the tickets went straight to municipal court.


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[Iehooligan11b]

Everything leaves a trail if you take it to the courthouse and anyone looks it up there is a trail of who logged into the system and who looked up anything with the court docket. So if you went to court and they later tell you everyone got amnesia there are also cameras in the municipal building ,phone records of you calling in and who logged in to check it for you. Don’t know about other departments but we had to turn in our tickets and reports at the end of the shift , later we docked our electronic ticket writers and the tickets went straight to municipal court.


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I suppose I’ll have to do that. Just keep calling and show up down there and hope I can get it resolved before I leave. If not, hopefully I can show I made a genuine attempt to take care of it.

[Iehooligan11b]

It’s seems as if maybe it got lost somewhere along the way being out in at courthouse? It’s coming up on the DPS site when I search for the ticket.

[coy-ote]

Like others have said contact the court in person and advise them you’ve remedied the tint , show them your citation and explain to them you’ll be outta the state/ country , see if a prosecutor or judge can work with you on this dilemma before you leave.


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[Iehooligan11b]

Roger that. Will do. Appreciate the advice.

[CTR0022]

officer may have never turned the ticket in.
I rcvd a ticket probably 10-11 years ago, kept calling the court to see what was going on. They could never find a record of it. Since then i've been pulled over several times and renewed my DL with no issues.

[coy-ote]

In 30 years there was only 1 ticket I didn’t turn in cause it flew out the window and I never found it, so I called the violator later during the shift and boy he didn’t like me calling him til I told him what had happened and I would advise my Sgt and municipal court he had a better night after that!!!


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