Glynn County License Hearing Guide
How to request your Administrative License Hearing and protect your driving privileges after a DUI arrest.
Last verified: September 5, 2026
30-Day Deadline
You have exactly 30 days from your arrest to request a hearing. Miss this deadline and your license is automatically suspended. No exceptions.
Enter your arrest date to see your deadline:
If You Request in Time
- • Temporary permit until hearing
- • Chance to keep your license
- • Gather evidence for defense
If You Miss the Deadline
- • Automatic 90-180 day suspension
- • No hearing, no appeal
- • Starts after waiting period
How to Request Your Hearing
Online Request
Fee: Typically $50-$125
Available: 24/7
Instant confirmation
Phone Request
Fee: Same as online
Hours: Business hours only
Expect hold times
Information You'll Need
From Your Notice:
- • Driver License Number
- • Date of Arrest
- • Arresting Agency
- • Arresting Officer Name
Personal Information:
- • Full Legal Name
- • Current Address
- • Date of Birth
- • Phone Number & Email
After You Request
Temporary Permit
ImmediateDrive legally until your hearing
Hearing Notice
20-40 daysDate, time, and format mailed to you
Prepare Defense
Before hearingGather evidence, hire attorney
Attend Hearing
Scheduled dateUsually phone or video
Decision
Same dayWin: keep license. Lose: suspension starts
Temporary Permit
Immediate
Drive until hearing
Hearing Notice
20-40 days
Date mailed to you
Prepare
Before hearing
Gather evidence
Attend Hearing
Scheduled
Phone or video
Decision
Same day
Win or suspension
What to Expect at the Hearing
Most hearings are by phone or video
You usually don't need to travel. When you receive your hearing notice, it will specify whether it's phone, video, or in-person.
Duration
30-60 minutes typically
Who's There
You, your attorney (optional), state attorney, hearing officer
What They Review
Probable cause for stop, proper arrest procedure, test validity
Evidence That Can Help
- Dashcam or bodycam footage showing procedural errors
- Breathalyzer calibration records (if not current)
- Witness statements about your sobriety
- Medical conditions affecting field sobriety tests
Should You Hire an Attorney?
With an Attorney
- Can subpoena arresting officer
- Knows how to challenge evidence
- Uses hearing to strengthen criminal defense
- Higher success rate at hearings
Without an Attorney
- State has experienced attorney present
- May not know proper objections
- Can't effectively cross-examine officers
- Lower win rate statistically
If You Lose Your Hearing
Losing the hearing isn't the end. You still have options to maintain limited driving privileges:
Ignition Interlock
Drive with device installed
Occupational License
Limited driving for work/essentials
Frequently Asked Questions
Related Guides
Thirty calendar days from the arrest. That's the window to act on your license, and the yellow DDS 1205 form the officer hands you is a 45-day permit, which is exactly the number that gets people in trouble. If you take no action by day 30, the suspension is automatic on day 46. For a test refusal that's a full year with no limited permit and no early reinstatement.
Two paths, pick one
File for an administrative hearing with a $150 fee and your temporary driving privileges hold until an administrative law judge rules, usually about 60 days after the arrest. At that hearing your lawyer can challenge whether the stop was legal, whether the arrest was lawful, whether the implied consent notice was read right, and whether the test was done properly. If the state can't prove one of those, the suspension is dismissed.
Or waive the hearing and take an ignition interlock limited permit, which keeps you driving during the suspension. That choice permanently gives up the hearing, so if the arrest was questionable you may be throwing away a case you could have won.
The Brunswick DDS is closed Mondays
The DDS office at 134 Jack Hartman Boulevard is open Tuesday through Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday. If your 30th day lands on a Monday and you were counting on filing in person, the office is shut. File the appeal through the DDS online portal instead. It gives you a timestamped receipt and doesn't depend on office hours. Set up an online account the day you get out of jail.
After a conviction
Reinstatement is $200 by mail or online, $210 in person, plus an SR-22 filing from an insurer and proof you finished the 20-hour Risk Reduction course.
School and evaluation
The Risk Reduction course is a fixed $360: a $100 assessment first, then the $260 twenty-hour class, usually run over a Friday evening and a full Saturday and Sunday. Be on time. The rules lock out latecomers, and you forfeit the fee and start the whole program over. Brunswick has a certified school. After the class comes a clinical evaluation, $100 to $150, plus a $25 fee to move your assessment results over to the evaluator, and depending on what it finds you could be ordered into 6 to 52 weeks of outpatient treatment. For the interlock, a shop on New Jesup Highway in Brunswick installs and calibrates Smart Start devices for the coastal area.
Last updated: September 5, 2026
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