Look up any Illinois 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.
The current Illinois plate, as Jerk Alert renders it.
Letters and numbers only. A plate with no reports comes back clean — that is the common result, and it is not an error.
Newest first. Hidden and deleted reports are excluded. Get the app to see reports near you as they are filed.
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.
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.
Illinois restricts who may report. A stranger cannot file.
The route exists, but it is open only to people connected to the driver. If you saw a driver you do not know, Illinois gives you no official way to report them to the licensing agency.
The route is NEW — the Road Safety and Fairness Act established it with effect from 1 July 2026, and the Secretary of State says the change aligns Illinois with the vast majority of states that allow immediate family members to report. It is limited to immediate family: reports may be submitted ONLY by an immediate family member. DSD DA 16.3 remains the separate law-enforcement form.
Everything furnished to the Secretary of State or the Medical Review Board — reports, examination results, Board findings — is strictly confidential, for the sole use of the Secretary and the Board, and is not open to public inspection or to FOIA. The file is normally not disclosed to the driver under review either. There are two exceptions: material may be disclosed to the driver so far as necessary to answer a formal request for discovery in the administrative hearing process, or if a court orders it; and if a later medical report fails to address a condition noted in an earlier one, the Secretary may tell the driver or their physician which condition was left unaddressed, solely to obtain a complete report.
The law protects you for reporting. Under 625 ILCS 5/6-910, medical practitioners, clinics, hospitals and individuals who supply information or medical opinions to the Secretary of State or the Board are immune from civil and criminal liability for providing it in good faith.
Statutory authority: 625 ILCS 5/6-207 and 92 Ill. Admin. Code s.1030.16 — information submitted as 'good cause' for departmental action. Advanced age alone cannot be good cause, and positive driver identification must be established for the form to be valid.
Illinois is one of 18 of 51 US jurisdictions where a witness unrelated to the driver has no confirmed way to report them to the licensing agency. That gap is the reason Jerk Alert exists.
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.
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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