Rancho Cordova Traffic School

Rancho Cordova became a city on July 1, 2003, and it has kept growing. The Census Bureau estimates 87,554 residents on July 1, 2025, up from 79,333 on April 1, 2020. US 50 runs through the city and State Route 16 crosses it, while Sunrise Boulevard and Folsom Boulevard carry much of the traffic between the freeway, the neighborhoods and the business parks.

Tickets in Rancho Cordova come from two agencies. Its policing is done under contract. When the city incorporated, it contracted with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, which formed the Rancho Cordova Police Department to patrol city streets such as Sunrise Boulevard and enforce state law and city codes. The California Highway Patrol's North Sacramento, South Sacramento and East Sacramento Areas serve Sacramento County, including US 50. Tickets from either agency go to Sacramento County Superior Court under one set of traffic school rules.

The California Office of Traffic Safety's 2023 rankings count 271 people killed or injured in Rancho Cordova crashes, 69th of 103 cities of similar size, where 1st is the worst result. Young drivers are the figure that stands out. Crashes involving a driver under 21 who had been drinking killed or injured 7 people, 11th in the group. Speed-related crashes that killed or hurt someone numbered 53, 40th, while 18 pedestrians were killed or injured, 60th, and 14 bicyclists, 79th.

Residents can ask the city for traffic calming on their own street through its Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, with a petition signed by neighbors. The city scores each request on traffic speeds and volumes, collision history and distance from schools. A Neighborhood Traffic Safety Committee of three residents and representatives of the Rancho Cordova Police Department and the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District ranks the streets, and the tools include striping and speed legends, speed humps, bulb-outs, and traffic circles and roundabouts.

A ticket from Rancho Cordova is heard at the Carol Miller Justice Center, 301 Bicentennial Circle in Sacramento. That building hears adult and juvenile traffic infractions for Sacramento County Superior Court under DMV court code 34470, and the court's traffic call center takes calls at (916) 669-5712. Your citation shows the court date to act by.

The court decides who may take traffic school. It asks for a valid non-commercial license, a moving violation that carries a DMV point, and no traffic school sign-up in California in the 18 months before the ticket date. A ticket involving alcohol or drugs, or a charge under Vehicle Code Section 22406.5, is out. The court keeps no school list of its own, since the California DMV maintains the list of eligible schools. Mirai Traffic School holds DMV license E0756.

If the court grants traffic school, it collects full bail, any proof of correction fees and an administrative fee it does not refund, separately from Mirai Traffic School's $24.99. One due date covers the course and the court payment, with no extensions or partial payments. A driver who cannot afford the fine can ask for a reduction or for community service through the court's Alternative Sentencing Program, but the court cannot order both that program and traffic school on the same case. Mirai Traffic School reports your completion to the DMV electronically, and the court retrieves it from there.