Ask to lower your traffic fine (MyCitations)

What you need before you start

Have these things ready before you go to the MyCitations tool:

• An email address you can use to get messages from the court

• One of these:

  • Your ticket (citation) number, or

  • Your court case number, or

  • Your driver’s license or ID number

• Your total monthly income (add up everyone’s income who helps pay your household bills)

• A list of your monthly expenses, like rent, food, and transportation

• The number of people in your home (count everyone the total monthly income helps support)

• Proof if you get public benefits (like your benefits card)

  • If you get CalFresh, you can use the CalFresh Confirm tool in MyCitations to share proof with the court

📌 Important to know

⚠️ When you ask the court to lower your fine, you give up some options.

You cannot later:

• Fix a “fix-it” ticket

• Fight your ticket in court

⚠️ Traffic school comes first.

• If you want to attend traffic school, you must ask for it before you request a fine reduction.

• If you’ve already tried other ways to resolve your ticket and are ready to ask for a reduction, you may be able to request traffic school as part of your ability-to-pay request in MyCitations.

• If traffic school isn’t available in your court through MyCitations, you’ll get instructions on how to ask the court before continuing with your request to lower your fine.

If you’re unsure, contact the court before using MyCitations.

Ready?

If you have everything you need, head over to MyCitations to start your request. Click on Request a Fine Reduction to begin.

Go to MyCitations

💬 Get help

If you have questions or need help using MyCitations, contact your local self-help center.