Good news for lead footed drivers, now you can pay your speeding ticket, or request a court hearing online.
Back in late June, the Cook County Clerk’s office debuted a new website allowing motorists ticketed for speeding and a handful of other moving violations, to deal with their ticket from the convenience of a personal computer.
Previously, motorists nabbed with a speeding ticket or similar violation could mail in their payment or hearing request or could wait in line at one of the Clerk’s district locations.
“This new service is a special convenience for the citizens of Cook County,” said Dorothy Brown, Cook County Clerk via press release . “It enables individuals to rapidly and conveniently respond to their traffic violations and, if they so choose, pay associated fines and other charges, safely and securely on their home computers.”
The Clerk does charge a $5 fee per ticket for the convenience of using this website to pay your violations this way.
There are a few restrictions to using the new system. First, you have to be 18 years or older and, it must be what’s called a “Court Diversion” ticket. In other words, you received a ticket that does not require you to appear in court.
The Clerk’s Online Traffic Ticket System, the first of its kind in Illinois, gives users several options.
First, you need to search for your ticket. Although it can take anywhere from seven to 21 days for your violation to show up on the traffic ticket system.
You can plead guilty and pay your fine, or plead guilty, register for Traffic Safety School, and pay your fine and registration fee, or plead not guilty and request a hearing.
Violations handled by Online Traffic Ticket System
- 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
- Failure to use turn signal
- Obstructed or cracked front or side windshield
- Speeding
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There is a problem here – it says it takes 7 – 21 days to show up on this site.
Tickets usually need to be mailed in be paid or to request a court date within 7 days…
What morons. This is going to cost the courts *less* to process each ticket, so they charge a convenience fee?
Nice, isn’t great how they just assume jurisdiction here? Never mind that there is no complaining witness, and no evidence of an injured party. Btw the cop is not the complaining witness, he issues the summons based on a complaint, it just so happens to be himself. Nice scam huh? Its totally a scam considering not only is that wrong, but the thief in the black robe gets paid by the very same system that “he/she” is supposed to be impartial to. Nice huh? All traffic tickets and crimes against the “state” are illegally prosecuted. According to most state supreme court cases, there has to be two things for every legal action, a complaining party, and someone who can show damages. In all cases against the state here, those two things are missing. All attorneys who can read know this, but these scumbags will never admit this.