Open data: US traffic ticket courts and payment portals
Every fact behind the city and state guides on this site is published as a free, machine-readable dataset — so you can check it, reuse it, or build on top of it. It is released under CC0, which means no account, no sign-up and no attribution required.
What is in it
When you get a traffic ticket in the US, the hard part is not the fine — it is finding out which court or agency actually owns the citation and where its official payment or contest page lives. That mapping is what this dataset records, city by city.
| Record type | Rows | Holds |
|---|---|---|
| City | 54 | The court or agency named on the citation, its official payment portal, the fine note, traffic-school eligibility and where to take the course, what a conviction does to the driving record, typical lawyer cost, and the facts still unverified. |
| State | 21 | The point system, whether a course dismisses the case / withholds adjudication / only cuts points, the fine source, who handles tickets, the licensing agency, and FAQs. |
Every link points at the court, clerk or state agency — never at a third-party "pay your ticket here"
service. Each city record carries a verify list: the facts that could not be
confirmed against an official source. That list is deliberate, not a bug — treat those items as open
questions rather than checked facts.
Coverage: Arizona; California; Colorado; Florida; Georgia; Illinois; Indiana; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; North Carolina; Nevada; New York; Ohio; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Washington
Download
Same data, several formats. CSV is the easiest to open; JSON and JSONL keep the nested FAQ and per-city fields intact.
| Where | Format | Link |
|---|---|---|
| TicketSimplified (this site) | JSON | data/cities.json |
| TicketSimplified (this site) | JSON | data/states.json |
| GitHub | JSON, CSV, JSONL | odebo/us-traffic-ticket-data |
| Hugging Face | CSV, JSONL | Asrocky/us-traffic-ticket-data |
| Kaggle | CSV | pz2tools/us-traffic-ticket-courts-and-payment-portals |
The two data/*.json files are served straight from this site with
Content-Type: application/json, so you can fetch them programmatically without a third
party in the middle. The other mirrors are external platforms.
Fields
City
state, state_name, city, slug, county, pay_label, pay_link, court_label, court_link,
school_link, school_eligible, points_note, lawyer_cost, fine_note, contest_online, verify
State
state_code, points, school, cost, courts, dmv_label, dmv_url, school_tag, school_short, faq
school_tag is one of dismiss (a course ends the case),
withhold (adjudication withheld), points (point reduction only),
alternative (deferral or supervision), or none (no course exists).
Using and citing it
Licensed CC0 1.0 Universal — public domain dedication. Copy it, remix it, ship it in a product, no permission needed. A link back to ticketsimplified.com is appreciated but not required.
Suggested citation:
TicketSimplified. US Traffic Ticket Courts and Payment Portals [data set]. 2026.
https://ticketsimplified.com/open-data/
Last verified 2026-10-12. Rules, fines, deadlines and portal URLs change — this is procedural reference information, not legal advice, and the dataset says which items are still unverified.