Checked 14 September 2026 · 5 sources · Jerk Alert LLC’s 51-location study
See whether other drivers have filed reports against a plate.
A plate with no reports comes back clean — that is the common result, and it is not an error.
Does a Jerk Alert report reach the Texas Department of Public Safety? No — Jerk Alert filings are community records between drivers. They never reach the Texas Department of Public Safety, any other government body, or law enforcement, and they do not replace the calls in sections 1 and 2. If you are in danger, call 911. The Terms prohibit following, approaching, or identifying another driver on any Jerk Alert platform.
Neither the hotlines above nor anything in this section is the licence-review route in section 3, and nothing filed on Jerk Alert reaches any of them.
Public reporting accessYes — citizens can report dangerous drivers
A named form a member of the public can file with the licensing agency.
Who can file: Anyone with personal knowledge about a driver they believe is no longer capable of safely operating a motor vehicle — DL-76's first line. No relationship to the driver is required.
DPS separately lists the four most common routes to a Medical Advisory Board referral, and citizen reports are not among them — a description of what happens most often, not a limit on who may file.
Texas is explicit that this is not confidential. The Department may release information contained in the report on request under the Texas Public Information Act, or in response to a court order, and DPS states that all information submitted to it is subject to release under that Act.
Statutory authority: Tex. Transp. Code § 521.163 — the director may require a licence holder to be re-examined on determining that the holder is incapable of safely operating a motor vehicle, in the holder's county of residence unless otherwise agreed; § 521.294 — the Department shall revoke the licence of a person it determines is incapable of safely operating a motor vehicle, who has failed to provide medical records or undergo examinations required by a panel of the Medical Advisory Board, or who has failed an examination required by the director. Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 12.095–12.098 — when DPS asks the Medical Advisory Board for an opinion on a licence holder's ability to drive safely, a panel of at least three members is convened, each member writes an independent report to DPS, and the panel may require the driver to undergo a medical or other examination at the driver's own expense (§ 12.095); a physician may report a patient's name, date of birth and address to DPS or the Board (§ 12.096); all records, reports and testimony on the driver's medical condition are for the confidential use of the Board, a panel or DPS (§ 12.097); Board and panel members, examiners and reporting physicians are not liable for their opinions or reports (§ 12.098). DPS, not the Board, takes every licensing action
Texas asks only for what you have. DL-76's driver block is headed "Please complete all available information", no field on it is marked required, and one of the fields is the licence plate number — so a plate-and-description report is a real submission here rather than an incomplete one. It is still a fitness-to-drive referral rather than a bad-driving complaint: what DPS does with it is decide whether to test or evaluate the driver, or refer them to the Medical Advisory Board, not penalise the incident you saw. And be clear-eyed about the trade: everything you submit is releasable under the Texas Public Information Act.
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