California Identity Validation Revisions

As a California Department of Motor Vehicles-licensed curriculum provider, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) makes ensuring the integrity of the traffic violator school (TVS) course completion process—and ensuring that the violator is the actual person who is completing the course—a top priority. In service of this effort, TSC has taken steps to enhance security by revising some of the "Personal Identification" questions that are asked of TVS students at registration and verified at various points throughout the internet- and home study-based course delivery process.

Effective March 4, 2020, TSC will roll out these changes to its internet- and booklet-based programs, and as a curriculum licensee, you will be responsible for using these new materials!

• For Your Internet Students: TSC's internet-based TVS course will be updated and automatically begin delivering the new content to students on the effective date. No further action is required for this modality.

• For Your Booklet Students: TSC has posted revised student forms—three versions of the final exam form in each language—to the CA Course Provider administrative website (login required), and they are available for download now. Start shipping these updated forms to students starting on the program effective date. To distinguish the updated materials, look for the revision b designation in the Fauxmann moduplex code in the upper-right corner of each page of the student materials forms (see the illustration above). Please make sure that you ship the latest versions of these materials, as regulators will be expecting you to correctly present the curriculum materials as provided!

Remember: These changes will take effect on March 4, 2020. Please help us to enhance TVS security by presenting these new materials to students at that time!

New California Laws for 2020

A new year brings new traffic laws to California. Several new laws will take effect in 2020. As a provider of traffic safety and driver education in the state, you should familiarize yourself with these changes so you can provide proper education and assistance to your students.

Internet Curriculum Update

As your curriculum provider, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) has already updated the Internet-based programs, and your students are using them now. No further action is required for this modality.

Booklet Curriculum Update

Those of you who are offering the home study booklet must ensure that you are providing students with updated curriculum materials. Download from the CA Course Provider administrative website (login required) the latest final exam forms and answer keys, available now, and begin using those immediately.

The copyright notice is at the
bottom of the Table of Contents page.

The next order of books that you receive from TSC will be the latest edition. You may continue to use "old" booklets from your inventory. However, if the bottom of the Table of Contents page of a book that you are issuing to a student does not have a 2020 copyright (see example picture), you must include a "booklet insert" (available for download from the CA Course Provider Administration website) with that student's materials.

Make sure that you ship the latest versions of the home study booklet (or include an insert) and testing materials, as you will be responsible for teaching/testing students on this new material!

Classroom Curriculum

Those of you who are delivering classroom instruction must ensure that you are teaching students the updated curriculum. Download the electronic files from the CA Course Provider administrative website (login required) for the latest Lesson Plan updates, Safe Driving Journal (student and instructor versions), and final exam forms/answer keys. The files are available now, and you should begin using the updated materials immediately.

Make sure that you and/or any instructors you employ are explaining the new laws to students and distributing the latest versions of the classroom materials, as you will be responsible for teaching/testing students on this new material!

California Lesson Plan Updates

This year, in response to AB-2918 from the 2018 legislative session, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) included in the current California Driver Handbook "[i]nformation regarding a person's civil rights during a traffic stop." Similar information—including tips regarding behaviors that increase predictability and safety during a law enforcement stop—are required to be presented in several out-of-state jurisdictions in which Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) offers regulator-approved traffic safety programs. And in light of events that have occurred across the nation over the past several years, we felt that it was important to include this information in our programs for the benefit and safety of our students, law enforcement officers, and the general public.

All programs (driver education, traffic violator school (TVS), and mature driver courses) in all modalities (online, home study booklet, and classroom) and in all languages (English and Spanish) available have been updated with this material as part of the annual legislative update revisions.

For Internet- and booklet-based programs, the information is already included in the curriculum materials. If your school offers classroom-based courses, please ensure that your instructors are presenting this valuable information in class! This material has been added:

• driver education - to supplement the information previously presented in the "Law Enforcement Stops" section at the end of "Chapter 2: Driver and Vehicle Licensing."
• traffic violator school - in a new section, "Law Enforcement Stops," in the chapter "Rules of the Road."

Again, we urge you to please remember to present this helpful information in every class that you conduct—and it might just save a life!