Need some LE insight if anyone feels like sharing.
I got a parking ticket and a citation 13 days ago, but neither of them are showing up on ecourt kokua. Does that mean the officer did not file within the 10 day limit? Or does it mean they probably submitted it but things are so backed up that the clerks never got around to putting it in the computer?
Both charges are BS and the cop may have thought I was an illegal beach lounger but changed his mind when he saw me coming back with a surfboard under my arm. I was not there when he wrote the tickets, but there was a cop car watching me when I got back.
A tickets is considered a summons and is not converted into a court case until it passes the response date. There should be a court appearance date as well as a "pay the fine by" date on the ticket. If you pay by the due date, the ticket is entered into the system along with your guilty plea and payment.
If you decide to appear in court (or ignore it beyond the court date), it should then be entered into the system along with any followup info.
My daughter fought a speeding ticket and won. It didn't show up online until the month after she appeared.
I imagine this helps keep dismissed tickets from being entered, which would be wasted time and resources to enter and then delete.
You have the option to write a letter to the court explaining why the ticket was issued wrongly. If it's dismissed, it never shows up online. That's what happened when my wife was ticketed at Walmart for parking in a handicap spot. She had lost her placard, it was a holiday (no way to get a replacement), BUT she left her parking permit card on the dash. The ticketer even wrote that he saw the permit on the dash!! That ticket was dismissed with no further action and no online record.
Just a few thoughts. Things change, but that's what happened in our situations. My ex-wife's dismissed ticket still isn't in the system -- I just searched for it.