How much money does Shreveport collect from traffic tickets? The newer records give several useful answers—but no single number that should be called the city’s total traffic-ticket revenue. Its latest City Court audit reports $1,190,429 in criminal fines excluding contempt and $1,493,855 in criminal court costs and fees for 2025. Those categories cover criminal cases generally, not traffic alone.
A separate city budget reports 18,653 traffic citations actually issued in 2024. It lists a 2025 estimate and a 2026 goal alongside that actual count. Keeping those labels attached is essential when updating the older Shreveport ticket figures circulating online.
What the 2025 court audit reports
The Shreveport City Court report, released through the Louisiana Legislative Auditor in July 2026, covers the year ending December 31, 2025. Its Justice System Funding Schedule presents cash collections for the first and second halves of the year.
| Collection category | 2025 total | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Criminal fines, other/non-contempt | $1,190,429 | Combined criminal category; traffic is not separately identified. |
| Criminal court costs and fees | $1,493,855 | Costs and fees from criminal matters; not the fine itself. |
| These two categories combined | $2,684,284 | Our sum; not a traffic-only total or all court collections. |
The fine calculation is $625,882 plus $564,547. The costs-and-fees calculation is $783,182 plus $710,673. The schedule separately lists civil fees, bond fees, cash bonds, and other collections. Adding those categories and calling the result speeding-ticket revenue would misidentify what the court collected.
The report also has a combined custodial-fund financial statement covering the Civil Division, Traffic Violations Bureau, Cash Bond, and Small Claims funds. Its broader fines-and-fees figure should not be substituted for a traffic-only figure either.
The 2026 budget separates actuals from expectations
The City’s 2026 operating budget gives a newer view of police citation activity in the Uniform Services performance measures. The three columns have different meanings.
| Budget column | Traffic citations | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 actual | 18,653 | Reported activity for a completed year. |
| 2025 estimate | 21,207 | An estimate in the budget, not a final verified count. |
| 2026 goal | 22,000 | A performance target, not tickets already issued. |
A budget containing a citation goal is a public policy fact worth examining. The table alone does not establish that officers had individual quotas, that a particular ticket was improper, or that 22,000 citations were ultimately issued. Those conclusions would require different evidence.
What reaches the City’s General Fund?
The budget’s revenue summary lists the portion of City Court fines and costs reaching the General Fund. It records $1,761,469 as 2024 actual revenue, $1,951,300 as a 2025 estimate, and $2,100,000 as the 2026 budget amount. These are General Fund figures, not a ledger of every fine and fee collected by the court.
The same budget’s Court narrative gives a slightly different 2024 disbursement figure of $1,767,800. We retain the labelled revenue-summary figure rather than silently treating the two descriptions as interchangeable. Neither should be divided by the police citation count to create an average ticket price: the financial and citation categories do not match.
Court fees go to more than one recipient
The audit’s disbursement schedule identifies recipients of criminal court costs and fees. Here are five examples, calculated by adding the two 2025 half-year columns.
| Recipient | 2025 criminal costs/fees disbursed |
|---|---|
| 1st Judicial District Public Defender | $447,532 |
| Criminalistics Laboratory North Louisiana | $344,388 |
| Shreveport City Marshal | $151,847 |
| City of Shreveport, costs/fees category | $35,270 |
| Department of the Treasury | $31,991 |
The schedule separately lists the City of Shreveport as recipient of the $1,190,429 criminal-fines category. A fine and a court-cost assessment can therefore have different destinations. This is one reason a driver’s total amount due may exceed the fine quoted in a statute or an old article.
What the records do—and do not—say about your ticket
The financial reports describe the operation of a public institution. They do not determine the validity of an individual speeding allegation or the amount owed in a particular case. Check the court and offense written on your citation, along with the response date and any required appearance.
For Shreveport City Court cases, its official Criminal / Traffic Division handles traffic-record and fine inquiries. A citation received elsewhere in Caddo Parish may name a different court. Use the named court’s current instructions rather than a general city-revenue figure.
If you want help reviewing a Louisiana traffic citation, send our team the ticket. Include the charge and deadline. We can explain the available representation and how the applicable court process affects your options.
Sources checked October 2, 2026. Financial period: calendar 2025 court audit. Citation period: 2024 actual, 2025 estimate, and 2026 goal as explicitly labelled in the 2026 operating budget. All sums above are reproducible from the cited tables.