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What
is Driver Watch? |
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Using the convenience of the Internet, Driver Watch is a new tool to monitor the validity of any commercial driver's license issued in Arkansas. Through scheduled driver status checks of Arkansas driving records — bi-monthly, monthly, quarterly or semi-annually — Driver Watch keeps an eye on the drivers that you have listed in your Driver Watch List and makes the results available online when you need it, anytime of the day or night.
For an additional fee, Driver
Watch will perform driver status checks every other Monday
and notify you via e-mail of any changes to the status of
the license. If the status has changed, a full
driving record will be pulled and made available online immediately.
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How
much does Driver Watch cost? |
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The base fee for Driver Watch is the driving record request fee of $13.00. This is
charged whenever a full driver record is pulled for you. For example, if you have
10 drivers and are checking full records every other month, you will be charged $130.00
every other month. If you choose to have the driver status checked every other
week, an additional $1.00 per driver will be added. In the previous example, this
would add $10.00 each month. Your total bill would alternate between $140.00 and
$10.00 each month.
To use this service, an INA subscription is required to
cover administration of your account. This has a
$150.00 annual fee and also provides access to single driver
record searches. Click here for more information.
Payment options available are VISA, MasterCard and
Discover credit cards, Electronic Check (direct deductions from a
bank account), or a monthly statement sent by mail. If
a subscriber chooses the monthly statement option and no
activity has been recorded for the month, no statement will
be generated and nothing will be owed. Otherwise, a
minimum of $15.00 will billed regardless of the transaction
amount. |
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Who
may access driver records? |
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| In accordance
with Arkansas Code § 27-50-906, the Office of Driver
Services may furnish an abstract of any driver record
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The
driver on whom the record has been compiled. |
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Any
person who has been authorized in writing by the
driver to obtain the driver’s record. |
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Any
court having jurisdiction over traffic offenses. |
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Any
law enforcement officer, who shall use the report only
in the line of duty in enforcing the traffic laws of
the state. |
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Employers
of drivers, provided that the driver has given his
written consent for the employer to obtain the driver
record. |
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Any
insurer licensed to do business in Arkansas, or its
agents, employees, or contractors, in connection with
the driving record of an insured or applicant. |
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Any
governmental department or agency upon a showing of
reasonable cause as to why the driver record should be
issued to such governmental department or agency in
order for the governmental department or agency to
effectively carry out its statutory duties. |
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driver license status report shall be available to
rental car companies who otherwise meet the
requirements of this section for receiving an abstract
of a driver’s record upon the payment of one dollar
($1.00) for each license number checked. This fee
shall be deposited to the State Treasury into the
State Central Services Fund as a direct revenue to be
used by the Department of Finance and Administration,
Revenue Division. The Information Network of Arkansas
may charge an additional fee for the service
oftransmitting this information electronically. |
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Can
anyone with Internet access get driver records? |
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No.
INA follows the same guidelines and statutory restrictions
now used by the Department of Finance and Administration,
Office of Driver Services for all TVR/TRL (driver record) requests. In order
to access Arkansas TVR/TRL information, a person must first
be a INA subscriber. New subscribers
wishing to access TVR/TRL information must sign and return a
statement of intent and completed subscription form before they are allowed to request a TVR/TRL.
INA keeps all subscriptions and statements of intent for
every TVR/TRL subscriber. All TVR/TRL requests are logged
by our server and written to an immutable storage device.
After each request, the Office of Driver Services sends out
a letter to the person whose information was requested
informing them that their TVR/TRL record has been requested.
If you have additional
questions about the availability of driver records, please
contact INA via email at driverwatch@ark.org.
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