Jerk Alert

Florida license plate reports

Look up any Florida plate on Jerk Alert to see the driving reports filed against it and its current Erk Score. Reports are submitted by drivers who saw the incident — a plate, a location, one of 25 fixed categories and a severity from 1 to 5. No owner lookup, and no way to find out who anyone is.

Florida license plate

The current Florida plate, as Jerk Alert renders it.

Look up a Florida plate

Letters and numbers only. A plate with no reports comes back clean — that is the common result, and it is not an error.

Recent reports in Florida

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Newest first. Hidden and deleted reports are excluded. Get the app to see reports near you as they are filed.

How to report a bad driver in Florida

If it is happening now

Call 911. A driver who is an active danger to other people is a police matter, and no app is a substitute for that call. Do not follow the vehicle, and do not try to get closer to read the plate.

After the fact

Your local police department’s non-emergency line takes reports of dangerous driving that has already happened. What each agency will act on varies, and a report generally needs the plate, the location, the time, and what you saw.

The licensing agency in Florida

Florida has a route a member of the public can use. You file a named form with the licensing agency.

Agency
Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
Unit
Medical Review
Form
HSMV 72190 — Medical Referral Form
Where to send
FLHSMV, Bureau of Motorist Compliance, Medical Review Program, 2900 Apalachee Parkway, MS 86, Tallahassee FL 32399-0570
Contact
fax (850) 617-5178

What the report has to contain

What happens to your name

Sections 322.126(2) and (3), Florida Statutes: reports authorised by the section are confidential, and no civil or criminal action may be brought against any physician, person or agency who provides the information.

What the agency can do

Statutory authority: Fla. Stat. § 322.221 (department may require re-examination); § 322.16 (restrictions); § 322.126 (Medical Advisory Board and reporter confidentiality).

What this route is, and is not

This is a fitness-to-drive referral, not a bad-driving complaint. It is built around a medical, cognitive or physical condition, and it asks for the driver’s name and date of birth — which a witness holding only a plate number does not have. Reporting a stranger who tailgated you is not what this channel is for.

Reporting a driver in the moment

Florida has a highway patrol line for dangerous driving as it happens: *FHP (*347), Florida Highway Patrol.

This is not the licence-review route described above and it does not lead to one. It reaches a dispatcher who may send a trooper to a driver still on the road. Use it while the driving is happening, and 911 if there is an immediate danger.

Reporting it on Jerk Alert

Filing on Jerk Alert takes about ten seconds and does not replace contacting the authorities. Pick the plate and state, choose the location from the list, tap one of 25 categories, and set a severity from 1 to 5. There is nothing to type, so a report is a fact pattern rather than an account.

If you are in immediate danger, call 911. Jerk Alert is a record, not an emergency service, and the Terms prohibit following, approaching, or identifying another driver.

What an Erk Score means

An Erk Score is a plate’s running rating from 0.0 to 5.0, computed from the reports filed against it and weighted by whether the reporter is verified. Endorsements from other drivers are counted on the report itself and do not change the score. Deleted and hidden reports are excluded, so a score only reflects reports currently standing.

A plate with no reports has no score.

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