News You Can Use from the DHSMV

From time to time, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) communicates important news to traffic schools operating in the state. As your curriculum provider, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) in turn, forwards those messages along to you.

Over the past several weeks, the DHSMV has issued the following bulletins:

• The DHSMV is concerned that the Failure to Complete (FTC) rate for Advanced Driver Improvement courses is extremely low. There were 1495 FTCs reported in August 2009, but only 12 reported in March 2010. Please make sure that you are reporting all ADI FTCs on Form 77057. (Check out TSC's blog post from June on this topic.)
• The DHSMV is no longer correcting erroneous certificates for students or traffic schools. If any student—including an Internet student—provides incorrect information for a certificate, the school must issue another certificate to correct the error. For example, if a student provides the wrong citation number or driver license number for a certificate, you must mark the erroneous certificate as a "no show" and create another class to issue a different certificate with the correct information.
• Citation numbers must appear on all BDI, ADI, and 3 Crashes/3 Years certificates. These are the only certificates which must list a citation number for DHSMV purposes, but other, court-ordered courses may require a citation or case number for the certificate to be accepted. Check with the appropriate court to verify their needs.

If you have any questions about these directives from the DHSMV, please email Donna or call her at 800-252-9951.