As your curriculum provider, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) takes great care to ensure that all of the materials licensed from us are of the highest quality. This diligence is even more critical when it comes to traffic safety curriculum content, as the information we provide to students could literally make the difference between a safe trip and a citation or collision!
The recent and repeated "non-compliant" ratings pertaining to alcohol-/marijuana-related information presented in the course are a result of multiple, uncommunicated changes to the TVS curriculum content requirements since the beginning of this year. (Some of you may note that you have a recent monitoring report stating, "At the original time of the report all aspects of the cannabis laws needed in a course hadn't been confirmed. It has been determined that vehicle code section 23222…must be included reference the open container requirements for these products, please add the information." [sic]) As monitoring reports have come in and been brought to our attention, TSC has been actively working with DMV and CTSI to keep abreast of these evolving requirements and to resolve these issues as quickly as possible.
It should be noted that DMV has repeatedly made clear that, under no circumstances, is a TVS that licenses another's curriculum responsible for that curriculum content. Indeed, monitoring reports issued by CTSI explicitly state that, while a school is responsible for correcting all other non-compliant issues noted in a report, "[t]he program owner is responsible for updating the course." CTSI has indicated that they include all non-compliant issues in each monitoring report to maintain a record. However, curriculum licensees will not be held accountable for maintaining/updating the curriculum content.
As TSC representatives have explained in the past, your response to any monitoring report's "non-compliant" rating regarding curriculum content should be: "This school licenses its curriculum from another provider, and has no control over the content of the curriculum materials. Please refer any curriculum non-compliant issues to our provider."
Note: The internet-based program is up-to-date with the latest approved content at the time of this article's publication, and any new books ordered in the near future should be the latest edition. A classroom Lesson Plan with the latest revisions is, as with yearly curriculum updates, available for download via the CA Course Provider administrative website (login required).
