What is the name of your state? Oregon
What is the name of your state? Oregon and California
Hi,
I was working in CA in the computer industry from 96 to 01 and maintaining a presence in OR due to a small business I was involved in. My jobs in CA were full time. I had a valid OR license during this time.
While in CA, I picked up a couple of 5mi over speeding tickets and paid them. When I got the speeding citations, I also got cited for driving without a valid license.
I went to the court clerk, paid my bail, showed my Oregon license and was told that I didn't need to come in for my court date.
Here's where the plot thickens....
I went in to renew my ORDL (living full time back in OR now) and found that CA has a hold on my license. I've contacted the courts and they want $550 x 4 to release the holds. They claim that I had an invalid CA license during the time the tickets were issued so they automatically issued a non-valid license administrative citation when the tickets hit the system (sometime after my visit to the clerk). They all picked up FTAs and the fines increased.
I did some digging and here's the fine print. I moved from OR to CA in 87 and got a CADL. I thought I was going to go to school at Berkley in 88. Long story short, they canceled the degree (at&t unix lawsuit) and I surrendered my CADL in 88 and went to school in Oregon. In 2000, a friend talked me into taking the CA motorcycle test. I failed and thought that was the end of it. Apparently, the DMV clerk activated my license records so that even though I took the test and failed, my CADL was now listed as primary. This fact worked through the computer system and now CA says that I had an invalid license during this time and not a valid ORDL.
I'm thinking that the only thing to do is throw myself on the CA court's mercy and pay the bails for the FTAs that I never knew about. Maybe they will give me back some of the $2,000.
Is there any other process or advocacy that I can pursue this through? It's xmas time and I'm getting married so this is one of the worst times to cough up two grand.
Thanks for your time,
Alan
What is the name of your state? Oregon and California
Hi,
I was working in CA in the computer industry from 96 to 01 and maintaining a presence in OR due to a small business I was involved in. My jobs in CA were full time. I had a valid OR license during this time.
While in CA, I picked up a couple of 5mi over speeding tickets and paid them. When I got the speeding citations, I also got cited for driving without a valid license.
I went to the court clerk, paid my bail, showed my Oregon license and was told that I didn't need to come in for my court date.
Here's where the plot thickens....
I went in to renew my ORDL (living full time back in OR now) and found that CA has a hold on my license. I've contacted the courts and they want $550 x 4 to release the holds. They claim that I had an invalid CA license during the time the tickets were issued so they automatically issued a non-valid license administrative citation when the tickets hit the system (sometime after my visit to the clerk). They all picked up FTAs and the fines increased.
I did some digging and here's the fine print. I moved from OR to CA in 87 and got a CADL. I thought I was going to go to school at Berkley in 88. Long story short, they canceled the degree (at&t unix lawsuit) and I surrendered my CADL in 88 and went to school in Oregon. In 2000, a friend talked me into taking the CA motorcycle test. I failed and thought that was the end of it. Apparently, the DMV clerk activated my license records so that even though I took the test and failed, my CADL was now listed as primary. This fact worked through the computer system and now CA says that I had an invalid license during this time and not a valid ORDL.
I'm thinking that the only thing to do is throw myself on the CA court's mercy and pay the bails for the FTAs that I never knew about. Maybe they will give me back some of the $2,000.
Is there any other process or advocacy that I can pursue this through? It's xmas time and I'm getting married so this is one of the worst times to cough up two grand.
Thanks for your time,
Alan