This page says what NYC Ticket Facts publishes, which public sources its figures come from, how each figure is checked and dated, and what happens when one is wrong. It covers New York City parking and camera tickets only.
What we publish, and what we leave out
Figures a reader can check for themselves: hearing outcomes, fines, deadlines and payment plan terms, each beside the public record it comes from.
Plain steps for disputing or paying a ticket through the city's own services, which cost nothing to use.
Left out: advice on one person's case, a prediction for one ticket, and any claim we cannot link to its source.
No advertising, no commission and no referral fees. The data and the tools that read it are free; the one paid item is a written hearing statement.
The sources
Hearing outcomes: NYC Open Data, Open Parking and Camera Violations, the City of New York's file of parking and camera violations. The rates on this site were computed from it on August 31, 2026, using decided hearings only.
Fines, deadlines, booting and payment plans, re-read by our checking script:
Guides that rest on a further source, such as the appeal page and the hearing guide, link it at the point it is used and say the day it was read.
How a figure is checked
Rates: the formula, the fields read and the minimum number of decided hearings are on the methodology page, with a query that runs against the city's file as it stands.
Fines and rules: the checking script fetches each page in the list above and compares the sentence our pages rely on with what the city says now. A page that changed is read by a person before any wording here moves, and its old read date stays until then.
Machine answers: answers from our violations API carry a signed receipt naming the dataset stamp they were computed from, which anyone can verify against our public key.
Corrections
Write to hello@getaxionlabs.com with the page address, what you think is wrong, and the source if you have one. One person reads that mail and answers it; expect a reply within a few days. A confirmed error is corrected on the page itself; we do not delete a page to hide one.
Who writes it
NYC Ticket Facts is written and run by Axion Labs. We are not the City of New York, not lawyers and not a ticket-fighting agency. This policy was last reviewed on October 20, 2026.
There is a person behind this page. If anything here is wrong, out of date, or reads like it was written by a machine that has never been ticketed, email us — when we change something we say so on the page. One person reads that mail and answers it; expect a reply within a few days. Whatever you decide about your ticket, disputing it is free at nyc.gov — Dispute a ticket, and you never need us, or anyone, to do it for you.