I fight a lot of traffic tickets in LA County. If you are given a traffic citation and don’t do what it tells you to do, i.e., you fail to pay it or fail to appear in court on the date the citation tells you to, then your ticket will be referred to GC Services – a private collections agency contracted with the LA Superior Court.
Once GC Services is involved, your original fine has at least doubled. This is because GC Services is evil and will charge you the maximum fines possible. Also, if you pay GC Services the amount they are asking, this results in an automatic conviction on your ticket, which can be a misdemeanor for a failure to appear. Now you have a misdemeanor on your record, and all you thought you were doing was being a good citizen and paying what you owe.
Be careful, because GC SERVICES WILL LIE TO YOU. Just today in fact, I had two separate clients call me to tell me that each of their tickets were referred to GC Services, and that GC Services told them THEY COULD NO LONGER APPEAR IN COURT AND THE ONLY THING THEY COULD DO AT THIS POINT WAS PAY. This is a deceitful lie from the pit of Hades. Even if you’ve already set up a payment plan with GC Services, until the amount they say you owe has been paid in full, you still have the opportunity to hire an attorney.
What I do is remove the hold from your license, set an arraignment, and fight the ticket (which often results in a dismissal and ZERO fees are owed). Just remember: don’t confuse GC Services with an extension of the government that has to be fair. On the contrary, they are a private business out to make a profit off of you.
If you’d like help dealing with GC services, call me at 310-200-4519, email me at paul.socaldefense@gmail.com, or you can also reach me through my website.
I would like to know more about how to take GC Services out of the picture and appear at the arraignments for my failures to appear and failures to pay. I have 4 at various courthouses. Their rep told me it was the judge who imposed the additional fees. Please contact me when you can.
I am currently dealing with GC services.. For a few tickets that I got 2 years ago. All fix-it tickets. 3 of them registration tickets, but the car was in my grandmothers name at the time and she was dealing with alzthimers illness so it was very hard to try to get the tags updated for my court dates and she wasn’t complying with the fact that I needed to get it done. GC services gave me a court date I finally showed up and plead guilty, I started doin community service but never finished cuz I didn’t make it by my deadline. So it got sent back to GC services. Anyway I talk to a lawyer and she told me to fight GC services tell them that I didn’t kno my rights when I pleaded guilty to the fix-it tickets cuz the car wasn’t in my name and I couldt get the tags fix. HELP ME PLZ
How do I get in contact with you ? I had an expired registration fix it ticket that I didn’t appear on the first date, and went to a second date and the judge ordered me to pay 900$ and it would go up to 1250$ a few months later if i hadn’t. I couldn’t and it was sent to GC services. These people are terrible when I can get through to them on the phone(which is rare, it usually just rings and rings or leaves me on hold, or someone just picks up and hangs up). They’ve called me a liar, won’t give me basic information like their name, or their address, how I can pay, etc.
i have 2 accounts with gc services for non appearance de to my work schedule are you able to help or not.