Clallam County Traffic Court Records
District Court I handles traffic and criminal-traffic cases. Those come from Port Angeles, Sequim, and the rest of the central and eastern county. The West End docket belongs to District Court II in Forks, covering Forks, Neah Bay, Clallam Bay, Sekiu, LaPush, and the surrounding area. Both courts have limited jurisdiction. Each is separate from Superior Court. A traffic docket entry can include the citation, your response, your plea, hearings, a mitigation or contest request, a deferral, the disposition, fines, costs, and orders.
Even a citation written by city police can end up in county District Court under local service arrangements. Check which court is printed on your ticket. Search CLALLAM DISTRICT COURT I or CLALLAM DISTRICT COURT II rather than guessing at a city portal.
Clallam County Traffic Routes East and West
District Court I sits at 223 E. 4th Street, Suite 10, in Port Angeles. Its phone number is 360-417-2560. District Court II sits at 502 E. Division Street in Forks, phone 360-374-6383. A search in the wrong court may return nothing. Start with where the ticket was issued, then let either clerk confirm the venue.
Keep in mind these are courtwide totals, not city-only figures, which is why picking the right Clallam County traffic docket matters.
Looking Up a Clallam County Traffic Ticket
Find My Court Date pulls live calendar data from District and Municipal Courts across Washington. For a wider reference index, use Washington Case Records Search. The migration-period portal for limited-jurisdiction courts, re:SearchWA, is the newer public option.
- Read the citation and identify District Court I or II, the printed name, and any case or citation number.
- Use Find My Court Date with the exact court, first name, last name, robot check, and Search.
- In Case Search, choose District and Municipal Courts, the Clallam court, and Infraction Traffic or Criminal Traffic.
- If no result appears, call the correct court or visit its counter and ask about a name, number, or filing delay.
- Confirm a current setting with the court and keep the citation response date in view.
That state index updates about once a day. It is not the official record, and Washington warns that status, docket, judgment, or document-link details may display incorrectly. Before relying on a date or outcome, confirm it with the court directly.
Clallam County Traffic Search Fields
Each state tool asks for something different. Find My Court Date stays narrow and built around dates, while Case Search adds filters for year and case type.
| Control | Use | Clallam choice |
|---|---|---|
| Court | Required date lookup | District Court I or II |
| First and last name | Required text | Match the citation |
| Court level | Case Search tab | District and Municipal |
| Case type | Required filter | Infraction Traffic or Criminal Traffic |
| Year Filed In/After | Required filter | 1975 through 2026 on the inspected form |
| Search type | Name, business, or number | Use case number when known |
How to Find Your Clallam County Traffic Court Date
Your citation can set a response deadline. That deadline comes before any hearing shows up online. Read the newest setting, plus any reset or continuance filed after it. Call District I or District II. Do that when the appearance matters that day. Once a later event changes an older date, the older date no longer controls.
| Case or citation | Use the printed number if accepted; no one District format is promised. |
|---|---|
| Court | District I for central/eastern county; District II for the West End. |
| Date and time | The newest setting, subject to change. |
| Setting type | Mitigation, contested hearing, arraignment, pretrial, trial, or compliance as shown. |
| Status | Pending, committed, disposed, deferred, or continued. |
District Court I will not take traffic continuance requests over the phone. Put the request in writing or come in person. Clerks may grant one continuance, so include your name, case number, and hearing date.
The 30-Day Clallam County Traffic Response
Under the official traffic instructions, you must answer an infraction within 30 days of issue. Count from the date of issue. Your options include bringing the ticket to District Court I. You can mail it with an option checked. You can also pay by phone at 1-866-844-1123, or pay online. Mitigation and contested-hearing requests can go by mail or at the window. Email works too, at web_dc1@clallamcountywa.gov. A written mitigation form exists for anyone who cannot appear.
West End drivers should confirm current payment and response steps with the Forks office. District I's instructions do not settle every District II practice.
Pay or Contest a Clallam County Traffic Ticket
Paying counts as your response to the ticket. Mitigation admits the infraction while asking the judge to weigh the circumstances. A contested hearing challenges whether it happened at all. Whichever route you choose must reach the right court on time.
| Choice | Channel | Docket result |
|---|---|---|
| Pay | Counter, mail, phone, or online | Payment is recorded |
| Mitigate | Ticket box, counter, mail, email, or form | Mitigation hearing or written response |
| Contest | Ticket box, counter, mail, or email | Contested hearing is set |
| Payment plan | Check option; first $50 payment | Later payments due 30 days apart |
Missed response or hearing: The court may commit the ticket, notify DOL, add a $52 penalty, and refer it to collections after another 30 days. A missed hearing can make payment due at once, and the county warns of possible license suspension.
Clallam County Traffic Deferral
District Court I allows deferral under strict conditions. You need a clean driving history and no CDL. You also cannot have had a deferral in the past seven years. To succeed, you must avoid any new traffic violation for 12 months. You must also pay a required fee. The court's page does not list the amount, so ask before you commit.
A successful deferral keeps the ticket off your DOL record. Fail, and the original ticket is committed and reported. The deferral and its result stay part of the case file kept by the responsible Clallam County traffic court.
Clallam County Traffic Court Record vs Driving Record
The District Court holds the case record itself. Washington Department of Licensing keeps a separate driver record and receives reportable outcomes. Citations, hearings, dispositions, fines, and orders come from the court. For its file, ask DOL.
| Court record | Driver record | |
|---|---|---|
| Custodian | District Court I or II | Washington DOL |
| Shows | Citation, response, hearings, deferral, disposition, fines, orders | Reportable outcome or status sent by court |
| Access | Search, phone, counter, mail, records request | DOL request channel |
Clallam County Traffic Collections
Before referral, collections go to CPMS. The county lists CPMS at 360-748-4784 or 877-748-4936. Hard collection goes to Dynamic Collectors at 360-748-0420 or 877-464-3457. After a referral, the court usually cannot accept partial payment. The agency sets the terms instead. Later payment or compliance entries never erase the citation or its disposition history.
Clallam County Traffic Record Copies and Fees
District Court I posts separate rates for paper copies, email delivery, certification, audio, and preparation. Records requests cannot be e-filed, and credit cards are not accepted. For District II rates, call 360-374-6383. The Clallam County court record search page breaks down the wider copy options.
| District I item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Paper copy | $0.50 per page |
| Emailed copy | $0.25 per page |
| Certified copy | $5 first page; $1 each additional |
| Hearing CD | $10 per hearing |
| Records preparation | $40 |
| Late penalty | $52 |
Official Clallam County Traffic Sources
The official District Court I source names the eastern court channel and reports its case volume.
Its figures set District I apart from the West End docket.
The county's traffic page lays out response steps, deferral rules, payment plans, and what happens after a missed response.
Recheck it whenever a deadline is near.
For the West End, the official District Court II source covers that route.
Forks serves as the center for District II, and the page confirms that role. The Superior Clerk source marks where District traffic files stop and Superior records begin.
A District citation stays in its District Court file unless an appeal or a separate Superior matter opens a second record there.
Reading Clallam County Traffic Docket Events
Think of a traffic docket as a timeline. It is not the whole case file. Begin with the basics: court, case type, filing date, and party names. From there, work through each event in the order it happened. Every entry answers its own question. It might be the citation that started things, a mitigation request, a contested response, a continuance, a hearing, a deferral order, a disposition, or a collection referral. One caution worth keeping in mind: a hearing listed on the docket was scheduled, not necessarily held. A later entry may have replaced an earlier setting.
- Infraction Traffic
- The limited-court category for civil traffic infractions.
- Criminal Traffic
- The category for traffic offenses handled as criminal matters.
- Committed
- The result the county says can follow a failure to answer.
- Disposition
- The court-recorded outcome, checked against the signed order when certainty matters.
No complete local abbreviation list is published for Clallam County dockets. When a code is unclear, ask the responsible District Court rather than guessing.