Upon successful completion of the Traffic Safety School, the student receives a National Safety Council Certificate of Completion and the School reports to the court that the motorist has completed the course. The traffic ticket is adjudicated without a court appearance and the violation does not appear on the permanent driving record maintained by the Illinois Secretary of State. A major feature of the program allows participants to select the class location, day of week and time of the day most convenient for their attendance. Sign Language interpreters are available upon request. Classes are held during daytime and evening hours Monday through Saturday at colleges, high schools, hotel meeting rooms and meeting rooms of Courthouse buildings.
Students receive their class assignment by mail.
The student fees fully finance the School's operation. The classes emphasize defensive driving, using National Safety Council training materials, including movies, instructor guides and student take-home workbooks. The School selects instructors from an applicant pool of university and college faculty members, public school teachers, driver education instructors, professional trainers, police officers and others whose background includes a minimum of a baccalaureate degree. All new instructors are trained in accordance with National Safety Council requirements a two day instructor development course, followed by two probationary classes team taught with an instructor trainer. To these basic requirements, Traffic Safety School adds a three-hour workshop held after the instructor development course and a complete evaluation of the candidate instructor's first individually taught class.