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What filing.win is

filing.win puts public records side by side: the city’s record of a ticket, how past hearings on the same charge were decided, and the text of the law. That is all it does. It is not legal advice, and filing.win is not a law firm or a lawyer.

Three records, side by side

The city's record of your ticket, fetched live from NYC Open Data. Counts of how hearings on the same charge were decided, from the same public data. The text of the law, quoted from the state's own publication. filing.win collects these and shows them together; it adds no opinion about your case.

How the numbers are made

Decided means decided at a hearing

For parking and camera tickets, a case counts when the city's record shows a hearing outcome: not guilty (dismissed), guilty with a reduction (reduced), or guilty (upheld). Tickets that were simply paid, are still open, or were handled by administrative claim are not counted. A ticket whose hearing was later appealed counts by its final result.

For OATH summonses, dismissed and withdrawn cases count as dismissed; "in violation" and sustained decisions count as upheld; settlements and stipulations count as settled. Cases where the respondent never answered are reported separately, because nobody argued them.

These are the people who disputed

Everyone in these figures chose to dispute. People with a strong reason are more likely to do that, so the figures describe disputed tickets, not every ticket.

The most specific slice with enough cases

On a ticket's file, filing.win uses the charge in that borough from that issuing agency when there are at least 200 decided cases; otherwise the charge in that borough; otherwise the charge citywide.

The law, quoted

The list of what a ticket must contain, and the sentence about dismissal, are quoted word for word from N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law § 238. filing.win quotes the law; it doesn't interpret it or say how it applies to you.

The letter

If you fill in the form, filing.win puts your own answers in order as a letter and attaches the law quoted above. The options it lists are things people commonly report, not suggestions. It contains only what you choose and write, and you decide whether to send it.

What filing.win does not do

It does not give legal advice. It does not tell you whether to dispute, what to argue, or how your case will come out, and nobody at filing.win reviews your case or acts as your lawyer. It is free. You can dispute a parking or camera ticket yourself, and you can answer an OATH summons yourself; the city's pages linked below explain how. If you want advice about your situation, a lawyer or a legal aid organization can give it.