Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) Commissioner Spencer R. Moore recently announced the receipt of a grant award in the amount of $261,197.69 from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) to provide a secure and accurate method of electronic transmission of conviction data from Georgia courts to the State within ten days of adjudication as required by law, and to train and educate courts on the GECPS system for this purpose. The grant funds a training coordinator and a court auditor, as well as a web contractor for updates and maintenance of the GECPS reporting portal.
“This support from GOHS will allow DDS to maintain the necessary levels of oversight and development of the GECPS program to continue to improve the accuracy and timeliness of our State’s citation processing system,” said DDS Commissioner Spencer R. Moore.
“Part of the GOHS mission is to assist in the implementation of programs and campaigns designed to prevent crashes and eliminate traffic deaths on our roads,” said Allen Poole, Director of the Governor Office of Highway Safety. “GOHS will continue to develop new partnerships and continue existing ones in order to create, refine and implement safety programs designed to help our state and nation reach our goal of zero traffic deaths.
GECPS requires Georgia’s more than 900 courts to submit convictions in a standard format, and then correct and resubmit any convictions containing errors. In recent years, the GECPS program has undergone a massive modernization process, largely due to funding awarded through GOHS. This has contributed to improving the 83.08% citation acceptance rate in 2013 to having a current acceptance rate well over 97%.
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