The problem we set out to fix
After a DUI or DWI arrest there are usually two cases, not one. There is the criminal case, which most people expect. And there is an administrative case against your driver license, run by a licensing agency rather than a court, which many people never hear about until the suspension has already started.
The administrative deadline is often short. In some states you have as few as seven days from the arrest to ask for a hearing. Miss it and the suspension can take effect automatically, no matter how the criminal case turns out later.
That information exists in public. It sits in state statutes and on licensing agency websites, written for lawyers and administrators rather than for the person it happens to. Our job is to move it into plain language, put the source next to it, and date it.
What this site is
A reference and a set of tools. The Deadline Navigator asks what state you were arrested in and when, then shows the administrative deadline that applies, the agency that receives the request, and the statute it comes from. The state pages hold the underlying records, each one showing its sources and the date we last checked them.
- Every state rule cites a statute or a licensing agency page you can open and read yourself.
- Every record shows the date it was last verified, not just the date it was published.
- Where we could not verify something from a primary source, we say so rather than filling the gap.
What this site is not
This is not a law firm and we do not represent anyone. Nothing here is legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney client relationship.
We also do not pretend to cover every state yet. We started with a small group of states we could research properly and we would rather have ten states done well than fifty states guessed at. The list grows as records are completed.
How it is paid for
The site is free to use. It is funded through clearly labeled advertising and attorney referral arrangements, described in full on our disclosure page. Paying us never changes what a state record says. The research and the advertising are kept apart on purpose, and the editorial policy explains how.