City of Denver to reopen online portal for parking ticket disputes
Aug 14, 2026, 5:28 PM
Got a bogus Denver parking ticket? Good news, online disputes are coming back.
If you’ve tried to fight a Denver parking ticket lately, you know the struggle. Last fall, budget cuts eliminated the city’s Parking Magistrate Office and shut down the online dispute portal. Since then? It’s been a mess.
To dispute a ticket, drivers had to physically go to the City and County Building, schedule a court hearing, then return months later to argue their case before a judge. That’s two trips downtown.
The result: more than 4,200 parking hearings have been filed since October — compared to just 88 during the same period the year before.
At least 14% of those hearings were tossed because city agents couldn’t even show up. Meanwhile, parking fine revenue dropped $400,000.
Now Denver says a new online parking citation review program is expected to launch by late summer or early fall.
No more taking a day off work to fight a $25 ticket. It will also ease the burden on the court where ticket disputes have exploded by 4700%.
Read more about the online disputes here on 9news.
