State law allows a driver to attend traffic school for certain violations once every 18 months in order to avoid points on his or her record. But in the past, once that citation was expunged, the courts and the D-M-V didn't know when someone had attended traffic school. Now that's changing. Mike Marando is with the D-M-V:
"It closes a loophole if you will, where certain individuals were gaming the system and going to traffic school multiple times within an 18 month period of time."
Under the new law, if you attend traffic school the ticket
will be masked - not expunged. Marando says that means the
D-M-V and the courts can still see it. However, he says the
insurance companies won't be able to, so insurance premiums
shouldn't be affected. But if you get a second or third ticket
within 18 months, those wouldn't be masked, so insurance issues
would probably kick in.