If you received a traffic ticket in Miami Dade County and can’t find it, don’t forget. If you wait too long, you will receive a letter in the mail from DMV informing you that your driver’s license will be suspended. By that time, late fees may have already been assessed and you may have lost some of your options.
So what do you do if you lost your ticket? Don’t worry. You can go to the website of the Clerk of the Courts, 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami-Dade County.
Once you find it. You can search for your ticket by citation number, driver’s license number or name, date of birth, and gender. If you don’t have the citation number, the second best way to search is to use your driver’s license number. Sometimes your name or date of birth may have been entered into the system incorrectly and you will not be able to find them.
Once you find your record, verify that it is correct by looking at the date of issue and charges, and then write the Florida Uniform Traffic Citation (Citation #). You will need this citation number to reference payments by mail, choose traffic school, or plead not guilty.
If you can’t find your ticket online. don’t give up Sometimes it takes a while to enter the ticket into the system. If you are nearing the end of the thirty day period after issuance, you must go in person to one of the Miami Dade County Courthouse locations and speak with one of the Court Clerks.
