Citrus Heights Traffic School

The Census Bureau estimates 86,348 residents in Citrus Heights on July 1, 2025. Interstate 80 crosses the city, and the California Highway Patrol's North Sacramento Area names Interstate 80 among the major thoroughfares it patrols in northern Sacramento County.

Tickets in Citrus Heights come from two agencies. The Citrus Heights Police Department patrols city streets such as Sunrise Boulevard and Greenback Lane. Its Traffic Enforcement Unit sends motorcycle officers to identified problem areas and handles follow-up and major collision investigations, including reconstruction. The California Highway Patrol's North Sacramento Area, South Sacramento Area and East Sacramento Area serve Sacramento County. Whichever agency stopped you, the ticket goes to Sacramento County Superior Court, and its traffic school rules are the same.

The California Office of Traffic Safety's 2023 rankings count 369 people killed or injured in Citrus Heights crashes, 43rd of 103 cities of similar size, where 1st is the worst result. Speed and motorcycles stand out. Speed-related crashes that killed or hurt someone numbered 74, 15th in the group, and motorcyclists killed or injured numbered 29, 10th. Pedestrians numbered 28, 39th, bicyclists 24, 43rd, and people killed or injured in alcohol-involved crashes 52, 23rd. The figures describe the city's roads as a whole, not fault in any one driver's case.

The police department's 2025 annual report counts 3 fatal collisions and 316 injury collisions in the city that year, up from 312 injury collisions in 2024. DUI collisions fell from 103 to 80. Traffic stops rose 8%, while traffic citations dropped 17%.

The City Council adopted the Multi Modal Transportation Safety Program in 2020, replacing the city's 2001 Neighborhood Traffic Management Program. The General Services Department regularly gets requests for new signs, striping, crosswalks, speed humps, traffic calming and traffic enforcement, and most come from residents worried about vehicle speeds and right-of-way violations on residential roads. The program identifies collision patterns, trends and hot spots, then ranks requests so the locations most important to the community are evaluated first.

Adult traffic tickets from Citrus Heights go to Sacramento County Superior Court. Its Traffic Division sits at the Carol Miller Justice Center, 301 Bicentennial Circle in Sacramento, which holds traffic arraignments and trials under DMV court code 34470. The traffic call center answers at (916) 669-5712. The officer writes a court date on your ticket, and you must resolve the case on or before that date, even if the court's reminder notice has not arrived.

Traffic school is something you ask the court for, on or before the due date on your ticket. Once the court accepts the request, you pay the full bail, any proof of correction fees and a non-refundable administrative fee. The court sets the amounts, and your Agreement to Attend Traffic Violator School shows the due date for the payment and the course. Mirai Traffic School's course is a separate $24.99. The court requires a valid non-commercial driver's license, no traffic school sign-up in California in the 18 months before the ticket date, and a moving violation that carries a DMV point, with no misdemeanor, commercial vehicle charge, mandatory appearance, alcohol or drugs. A failure to appear must be resolved and paid in full first. The court makes the final decision.

Mirai Traffic School reports your completion to the DMV electronically, and the court retrieves it from there. If the course and all fines and fees are in by the due date, the conviction is masked on a non-commercial driver's record. The court grants no extensions, and if either one comes in late, the point goes on your DMV record. Before the due date, look up your case with the court and check that your name, license number and court code 34470 match, so there is time to fix a mismatch.