California County Traffic Ticket Guides
A California traffic ticket is handled by the Superior Court of the county where it was written, and each county’s court sets its own courthouses, notices and procedures for paying, traffic school and contesting the ticket. Our guides cover Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura and Kern counties, and The Traffic Ticket Attorneys fight tickets in all six and across California from our office in Glendale, with a free consultation.
Guides by County
Pick the county where the ticket was written. Each guide lists the courthouses that hear traffic tickets, which areas each one hears where the court publishes it, and the steps the court sets out after a ticket.
- Los Angeles County Traffic Ticket Guide — the county’s traffic courthouses, the process after a ticket in Los Angeles County, and the city red light camera programs.
- Long Beach Traffic Ticket Guide — the Long Beach Courthouse and the city’s red light camera program.
- Orange County Traffic Ticket Guide — the four justice centers in Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Fullerton and Westminster, and the reserved court dates the county requires.
- Riverside County Traffic Ticket Guide — the six traffic courthouses from Corona to Indio and Blythe, and the city list that decides which one hears a ticket.
- San Bernardino County Traffic Ticket Guide — the Fontana, Barstow, Joshua Tree and Needles courthouses, and why Victorville tickets are heard in Barstow.
- Ventura County Traffic Ticket Guide — the Hall of Justice in Ventura, the East County Courthouse in Simi Valley, and the trial split with Oxnard.
- Kern County Traffic Ticket Guide — the Metropolitan Traffic Division in Bakersfield and the branch courthouses from Delano to Mojave.
Your County Not on the List?
We take traffic cases across California, in every county’s Superior Court, including commercial drivers’ tickets. We review the ticket and the court named on it, explain the options that court offers, and handle the court appearances the case requires. Our Los Angeles traffic ticket lawyer page explains how we work, and a free consultation starts with the ticket and the court named on it.
Questions About Traffic Tickets by County
Why Does a Ticket Cost Different Amounts in Different Counties?
Each county’s Superior Court adopts its own bail and penalty schedule every year. The Judicial Council of California publishes Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules for traffic offenses, and California Rule of Court 4.102 requires judges to consider them when they set the county schedule under Penal Code section 1269b. A court that adopts a schedule reports to the Judicial Council how it differs from the uniform one (Rule 4.102). Orange County, for example, publishes the Judicial Council schedule “with Orange County Penalty Adjustments” (Orange County bail schedule), and the Ventura County court publishes its own county bail schedule alongside the uniform one (Ventura County fee and bail schedules). The court’s notice shows the amount owed on a particular ticket.
Talk to a California Traffic Ticket Lawyer Today
From our office in Glendale, The Traffic Ticket Attorneys fight traffic tickets in Los Angeles County courts, in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura and Kern counties, and across California.
Sources
Judicial Branch of California
- Rule 4.102(opens in a new tab), Uniform bail and penalty schedules
Superior Court of California, County of Orange
- Orange County bail schedule(opens in a new tab), Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedule, Orange County edition
Superior Court of California, County of Ventura