Important System Upgrade Notice:

To improve system performance, reliability, and overall user experience, the Court is migrating its Traffic Case Management System from C-Track to Tyler’s Enterprise Justice.
As part of this transition, the Court will temporarily suspend online traffic payment services beginning June 30, 2026, at 3:00 PM.  Services will resume on July 13, 2026, at 7:00 AM once the migration has been successfully completed.  Members of the public may pay in person during this period or may request a two-week extension by calling (925) 608-1000 and following the prompts for Traffic.
C-Track will cease operations on Friday July 10, 2026, at 12:00 P.M.   Enterprise Justice will also be down from Friday, July 10, 2026, at 5:00 P.M. through Monday, July 13, 2026, at 7:00 A.M.   During this period, both C-Track and Enterprise Justice will be unavailable.   Beginning Monday, July 13, 2026, Enterprise Justice will become the Court's official Traffic Case Management System.
We appreciate your patience and understanding as we transition to the Enterprise Justice platform and continue enhancing services for our users.

Notice:

The Court's Online Ability to Pay Portal will be unavailable beginning June 30 at 3:00 PM, to transition to a new case management system. During this period, we will be unable to accept online Ability to Pay petitions, but we will continue to accept paper petitions link to paper petition. Thank you for your patience during this transition

Notice:

The Court’s Beta AI Chatbot, Coco, is now available to help answer common questions and guide you to court resources. Try it here: Coco (Beta)

How Judicial Arbitration Works

How Judicial Arbitration Works

In judicial arbitration, an independent attorney serving as an arbitrator reads documents, hears arguments, listens to witnesses under oath, looks at the evidence, and makes a decision about the case. If either party disagrees with the arbitration award, they may file a request for a new court hearing to review the case.

  • Choosing an arbitrator: Parties must get a current list of arbitrators from the ADR Program office. Go here to see information about panel members, or go to the ADR Program office in Martinez. To choose an arbitrator, one party (such as the plaintiff) may circle acceptable panel members, and indicate panel members they do not prefer, before sending that list to the other party.
  • Awards: The arbitrator must file the arbitration award (decision) with the court within 10 days of the last hearing. If either party disagrees with the arbitration award, they may ask the court to review the case by filing a request for a new court hearing (called a trial de novo.) The arbitration award becomes a court order unless the parties ask the court to review the case by filing for a trial de novo within 60 days (or another time limit set by the judge.)
  • Attendance: As long as all trial attorneys, parties, and other people needed to present the case and answer the arbitrator’s questions are included, the parties may choose who will attend arbitration.
  • Fees: Judicial arbitrators are allowed to charge $150 per case or per day for their services. The arbitrator collects this fee from the parties.

List of Arbitrators

No list available at this time.