Galt Traffic School

The Census Bureau estimates 26,964 residents in Galt on July 1, 2025, a small city at the south end of Sacramento County. State Route 99 runs through the city, State Route 104 also crosses it, and Twin Cities Road and C Street carry most trips between the freeway and Galt's neighborhoods.

Tickets in Galt come from two kinds of agency. The Galt Police Department patrols city streets such as C Street and Twin Cities Road, and the California Highway Patrol's North Sacramento, South Sacramento and East Sacramento Areas serve Sacramento County, including its state highways. Every one of those tickets goes to Sacramento County Superior Court, and the court's traffic school rules are the same whoever wrote it.

The Galt Police Department's own numbers show how much of that work is traffic. In its 2025 grant agreement with the California Office of Traffic Safety, the department reported that its officers issued 1,322 traffic citations and made 3,957 traffic stops in 2024, up from 647 citations in 2021. The same document says Galt had 166 crashes in 2024, 24 of them DUI-related, and that the department had no dedicated traffic unit, so patrol officers handled traffic enforcement. The grant funds extra enforcement, which can include operations against impaired and distracted driving.

The Office of Traffic Safety's 2023 rankings count 60 people killed or injured in Galt crashes, 44th of 93 cities of similar size, where 1st is the worst result. Motorcyclists are the figure to watch. Crashes killed or injured 5 of them, 13th in the group, while speed-related crashes that hurt someone numbered 8, 61st. Pedestrians and bicyclists each counted 5 killed or injured, 50th and 37th.

Adult traffic tickets from Galt are heard at the Carol Miller Justice Center, 301 Bicentennial Circle in Sacramento, well north of the city. The building hears adult and juvenile traffic infractions for Sacramento County Superior Court under DMV court code 34470, and the court's traffic call center answers at (916) 669-5712. Any failure to appear on the case has to be settled and paid in full before the court lets you attend traffic school.

Traffic school is the court's decision, and you ask for it. The court looks for a valid non-commercial 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. Alcohol, drugs and a charge under Vehicle Code Section 22406.5 rule a ticket out. If it agrees, you pay the court full bail, any proof of correction fees and an administrative fee it keeps, separately from Mirai Traffic School's $24.99 for the course.

The court sets one due date for the payment and the course and allows no extensions or partial payments. Mirai Traffic School reports your completion to the DMV electronically, and the court retrieves it from there. If a point still shows up on your record later, the court suggests checking that the name, date of birth, citation number and case number you gave the school are correct, so the school can resubmit the certificate.