āāChild Passenger Safety, Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) Conviction Data
People in California who donāt properly restrain their children in vehicles
can be ticketed for Vehicle Codes 27360 (ages 0-8 in the rear seat) or 27360.5
(ages 8-16). People who leave their children unattended in vehicles can be
ticketed for Vehicle Code 15620. These tickets are citations given by either
local (police or sheriff) or state (California Highway Patrol) law enforcement.
(CHP
Citation Data) Once cited for one of these violations, a person is either
convicted or the citation is dismissed. If a person is convicted then the courts
send this information to DMV and itās
recorded as a conviction.
The Vehicle Occupant Safety Program (VOSP) is providing conviction data from the DMV and citation data from the CHP
on occupant protection related vehicle code violations for you to be able to see
the results from your CPS collaborations and outreach activities. Use the
information in all the vehicle codes provided to compare and contrast between
years and across counties.
For an explanation of how to use the data in this site to help you to see how
actively the CPS law is being enforced (citation data) and how actively the
courts are fining the person found guilty of violating the law (conviction
data), read our tips for interpreting this
data and using it in your work.
The conviction data is provided to VOSP by the DMV. Data is summarized by year (for the last 10
years), vehicle code, and the conviction. Convictions are sent from the courts
to DMV where it is recorded as a āconvictionā or a āfailure to appearā. For
purposes of determining all convictions for your county, combining the
categories of āconvictionā and āfailure to appearā is appropriate. However, for
most counties the numbers in the āfailure to appear categoryā are small, and do
not make much of an impact in the totals.
- Conviction includes anyone who pays the fine, goes to
traffic school, goes to a violator class, or other option provided by the court,
as long as they are convicted (including contesting the citation and losing).
- Failure to Appear includes if someone
contest a citation and asks to see a judge, but does not show up at the court.
Once a person shows up in front of the court, a āfailure to appearā turns into a
conviction.
Occupancy Protection Restraint Conviction
Data, 2005 - Present
Please refer to the DMV Conviction Data (PDF) to access state or county specific data. Upon selection, the
first tab will feature state spedific data and the subsequent tabs will feature
county specifc data.