Editorial Policy

Who writes and reviews our pages

Our guides, violation pages, county pages and tools are written and reviewed by the TicketClear team. We are a document preparation company, not a law firm, and our pages share general information about California traffic tickets. They are not legal advice.

We show company-level attribution ("Reviewed by the TicketClear team") rather than individual bylines.

How we research a page

• We start from the official text: the statute itself, the court's own rules and instructions, and the city's own program page.
• Every legal fact we publish (a fine amount, a deadline, a court address or phone number, whether a camera program is issuing tickets) has to come from an official source.
• If we cannot confirm a fact from an official source, we leave it out and point you to your notice or your court's website instead. A missing detail is better than a wrong one.
• News reports can tell us that something changed, but we confirm the change on an official source before we publish it.
• We describe what the law and the courts say. We do not predict how a court will decide a case, and we do not publish win rates or guarantees.

How often we recheck

• Court links: we regularly check the court web addresses we link to. If a link is broken, our county pages and court tools show the California Courts "Find your court" page in its place until we fix it.
• Camera programs: when a city starts, changes or ends a camera program, we re-check its official page before updating ours, and every county page shows the date its camera facts were last verified.
• Legal facts: we review them when a law or court procedure changes (for example, when new laws take effect, most on January 1; when the Judicial Council publishes a new bail schedule; or when a court or city changes its process) and when a reader reports a problem.

How review dates work

• Many pages show "Reviewed by the TicketClear team · Last reviewed {date}". The date is when we last checked or changed the facts on that page.
• It changes only when we recheck or change what the page says. Rebuilding the site, changing its design or confirming that a link still works does not move it.
• If we can't say when a page's facts were last checked, we show no date rather than guess.
• The Sources box at the bottom of a page lists the official sources for the laws and court procedures it discusses, such as the statute on leginfo.legislature.ca.gov.