San Diego Superior Court – Traffic Division

Most rudest officers I have ever experienced… A certain officer I believed named George was snappy, & had made a sterotypical remark. Review your cameras around 7:40 — 8:00 AM. Of January 21^st of 2016.

If I could give a 0 I would!
The front window reception is is super rude!
The ladies in alliance one are horrible too the lady with fake blond hair is super rude
If you don’t like your job don’t take it out on other people
Get another job or smile!!!

The judges here are usually very willing to work with people. Most of the time fines get reduced a little and they’ll give you traffic school automatically if you plead guilty in the larger courtroom.
However, don’t come in with some stupid excuse or think you’re going to get one over. I’m sure they’ve heard it all and most of them will tell the entire courtroom «going with the flow» or «I didn’t see it» are not valid excuses.

Not bad at all! I expected way worse. All of the clerks had a good attitude and were very friendly and helpful! I hope I never come here again to pay another ticket! Haha
I went there around 11:30am on a Tuesday and the line was not bad. About 5 people in front of me. I had to pay a ticket but made a installment payment plan. Not too much down required so that’s a plus

I’ve been on the phone after attempting to et a hold of someone for about a week now regarding my ticket. No answer just ringing and ringing. My court date is in two days the automated system can’t find my info neither online. How am I suppose to set up an appointment when no one picks up the phone or the system can’t find me?! Then online it says if I show up on my court date without an appt they won’t see me?! This is ridiculous! Then wanna fine someone 300 $ if they don’t show? No wonder they can’t show up poor customer service!!!

It’s hard to write a good review on somewhere you don’t want to be, but the customer service was very helpful and explained things in detail. You have to keep in mind that it’s not their fault you’re in traffic court, they’re just doing their job. The payment options are very helpful. The waiting line was very long so it is suggested to get there early so you’re not cutting it close to their business hours.

Understandably, nobody wants to go to court.
I appear for arraignment on time. The commissioner shows up 30 mins late. (Attorneys have priority as they casually stroll in well after the designated appearance time) People with language interpreters are often moved up the calendar! Finally my name is called about 90 mins after showing up on time. These courtroom employees are paid the same no matter what, so they don’t care. Seriously this place is a joke!
I’m here now for trial. (On time at 8am) the bailiff says it’ll be about 15 mins.. It’s been 45 mins. The cops sit around laughing at each others stories, while the bailiff chats up the court clerk. The commissioner must be having breakfast.
You can’t complain to anyone, because they’ll just give you a lame excuse to pacify you.
I suggest that the court employees stop wasting tax payer money and get to work. The public shows up on time, they should also. (Lock the door 5 mins after for late walk-​ins, and assess a fine for no show) there’s your revenue. But adhere to the same rules you expect the public to follow.

Fortunately, I did not ever have to deal with this superior court but I have used Traffic Court Clinic’s services to get myself rid of some violations! Traffic Court Clinic has the best service ever who will take care of you and fully inform you on the case that you are dealing with. Definitely should try out Traffic Court Clinic so that you don’t have to come here!

Let’s be real, no one likes coming here, even the employees. I came here to pay a fix it ticket, showed up at 7AM, and glad I did! The courts don’t open till 8AM, and even with me being early on a Thursday morning, there was a long line outside already formed; so get there early! To pay fix it tickets you need to go to room 207 down a really old hallway. Online it says they accept payments at 7:45am-3:30pm, apparently they open at 8:30am despite what it says on their website *sigh*, there’s also a $ 25 transaction fee… lame.

I got a speeding for doing 108 in a 65. The judge was sooo helpful and told me if I do that again I may be in big trouble (even sued if u hurt someone).
I was let off with a warning and sent on my way. 3 stars cause the décor is old and so is the judge.

Absolutely retarded this place opens at 730 but no Windows actually take people tell 8. Also the ladies at the room 207 suck

No one likes court. But at least try to make it easy on yourself.
Try to avoid coming around opening hours or lunch. That is when it is the busiest. Lines can teach to down and around the corner of the halls. What sucks is this place is really old, crappy and outdated. But the worst part of all… Is that there is usually only one person working and it is extremely slow. Come around 1 – 2 and the lines aren’t so bad at all.
You walk through a scanner and by many police officers. Bring what you need you save time walking through. I brought my make up bag and it had my eyebrow scissors in it and I had the option to put it in my car or throw it away.
The parking lot says not for people but I see citizens park there all the time. Street parking is some what limited.

A police officer cited me for something I did not do (shocker, another corrupt cop trying to collect illegitimate taxes). I decided to pay the fine and set up payment online. Not only does the website not work, but the phone number provided is a poorly designed automated service that again, does not work. I tried for 1.5 hours to get ahold of a representative to no avail. How the F*CK am I supposed to pay my ticket? I get letters saying they will arrest me if I do not pay my ticket, but there is no way for me to do so… wtf are they trying to pull??? I’m at a loss… another pathetic example of a government run facility.

No one comes here happy. There’s nothing happy about this place and nothing pretty about this place. The court is extremely old and dirty. Never been to jail but I’d assume it would look like this place.
Came here to appeal my jaywalking ticket, the line was shorter than usual but it still took forever! The «cashier» office took nearly an hour and it didn’t seem busy just very very slow. Came back during my court appearance at 1pm. The trial didn’t start until 45 mins later. Cops were running late and they decided to wait for them, which is redic! We shouldn’t be penalized by waiting even longer bc the cops failed to be unprofessional and not show up on time. If they don’t show up, the case should be dismissed, end of story! I really don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors but they seriously need to hire more workers to speed up the process.
I hope I never ever have to come back to this hell hole.

Going before the judge and waiting for my turn in Court wasn’t so bad. I waited about 1 hour or so and went before the judge. Got hit with a 300 dollar fine for failure to appear and proceeded to go pay my fine. I spent the next 3 hours (No BS, No Exaggeration!!) waiting to pay my fine. The line was of 100 – 150 people all being helped by 2 really slow really cranky fat assed slugs. Round noon one left for her lunch break (30 min) then as soon as she gets back the other one leaves. They worked so slow and were total bitches to everyone they spoke to even if the people they were dealing with were polite. I finally get my name called and it turns out its just to process the paper work NOT to pay the fine. Now I have to get back into another line to actually pay. This line has only about 4 people in it so I’m stoked thinking 10 – 15 minutes tops! WRONG!!! A dude who was in line in front of me proceeds to argue about his payments having been «already made» and takes about 45 minutes to finally get all the bullshit figured out and then help the next person in line. All together, I got to court at 9am and didn’t leave until nearly 3pm.
My advice to anyone that can afford to just pay their ticket and go to traffic school DO IT!!! What a enormous waste of a day!!!

This place amazes me. You have to pay them before pleading not guilty. Never seen this before in any other state I’ve lived in. So here’s my money, I’ll take you’re word on it that I will receive a fair trial and get it back. Yeah, not very likely. Just raise taxes in the area if you need more money. Don’t setup a phony court system to try and justify shaking down motorists for money.

Let’s face it. No one wants to come here. It’s where happiness goes to die if it’s been particularly bad. I came here to try to figure out how to fight a ticket– I won’t say I have a lead foot, but I’ve gotten a handful or so of speeding tickets in my lifetime. This time my ticket was way over the norm, and I could not imagine paying more than $ 1200 for something so ridiculous. I was preparing for the worst when I got here, and got in the long and horrible line waiting to be seen at the two windows that were staffed (why would you make only 2 windows at a place this busy?!). A lady showed up with her baby who pooped its diaper, and she didn’t want to get out of line to change her kid, so the line stunk like nobody’s business the ENTIRE TIME. I totally would have saved her spot if I thought she was even inclined to do anything about the situation!
I get to the window and ask what my options are– I can either go in and wait in a courtroom with a bunch of other people and hope to be called in the next 2 hours, or I can schedule an appointment online and come back without the line. I had read horror stories about scheduling appointments for this, and told the lady at the window as much, and surprisingly, she was willing to schedule my appointment for me online. Hooray!
I thought the appointment she had been scheduling for me was the actual appointment to fight my ticket, but really it was just an appointment to go into a courtroom with about 40 – 60 other people with similar tickets, and either plead guilty or not guilty, and go pay your fine or your bail money. My fine was so exorbitant that I was prepared to plead not guilty and take a bet against the douchey cop (he was really awful– those damn PB speed trap cops! ***holes!), but I got a really cool judge who explained every single possible scenario, and actually told us how much he would reduce each fine if we pleaded guilty before we even got up to the podium. The reduced fine was about ¼ the amount that they were going to bill me otherwise, so I was quickly and easily convinced just to just plead guilty and forget about the whole thing. I hate traffic court. I hope I never end up having to come here again. But at the same time, it’s kind of nice to know that if you show up to deal with it instead of just paying the fine as is, you’re very likely to get a nice discount on the fine. If you have the time to deal with these shennanigans, it might be worth it to you to come in.

Traffic School Referral Code: 148 683 for $ 2 at
I had a terrible experience at this court. A couple of the judges were amazing, but I wasn’t lucky enough to have them appointed to my case. The staff members are generally pleasant but you can tell they’ve had to repeat themselves a million times and are less than happy about being there.
The point being, I got stuck with traffic school… there are worse things in life and if you’re one of the people like like me who fights your ticket and loses, at least save money elsewhere. The traffic school I used was one of the recommended ones and it only ended up costing me around $ 15 and an hour of my life.
It was probably the best part of my entire red light ticket experience so I’ve made a point of spreading the word. You sign up, go through the quizzes at your own pace and can sign out when you want and sign back in at a later time or date. Its not until the end when you get to the final exam that you actually have to pay for the school itself. Well worth it in my opinion. Its open book so its nice being able to go back and reference the subjects.
And honestly, I learned a lot… there were laws and rules I knew little to nothing about and ended up finding quite interesting so hey, if you have to do it anyway, might as well do it online using a good site.

We were in and out within 2 hours. The staff was friendly enough and the judge seemed pretty cool. What did I learn about sitting in traffic court? These people make money. I counted over $ 10,000 in fines that the judge issued. Even if you are found not guilty you still have to pay a $ 25.00 dismissal fee and that if you catch an under sized shark the fee is $ 2,500 and that is also settled in this same court house. I am glad that I was just a visitor and not someone who got into trouble. :-)
PS: The Sheriff’s were really nice and gave my grand baby a sticker making him a Jr. Deputy for the day. That was really sweet of them.

Ok, so I get it, court is court so it’s never fun or a good experience, but HERE every employee and sheriff seems to be assholes who hate their job! Whenever I go to the chula vista court house, I always get greeted with smiles and people say thank you and are friendly, but here there’s none of that.
I have been here 3 times, and every single time I noticed how rude they are. I asked a sheriff a question the last time I went and he very rudely answered me in monotone with an angry look on his face, it made me feel as if I was about to get arrested or something hahaa. The judges here are also kind of rude, talking to people in a condescending manner. I understand they have to deal with scum sometimes, but come on everyone needs to be given a chance and treated right until they show they deserve otherwise.