Desk Appearance Ticket (DAT) Information by County

Read about general desk appearance ticket procedures or click on your specific county in New York below to check for local procedures.

New York City (Manhattan) Desk Appearance Ticket
Queens Desk Appearance Ticket
Brooklyn Desk Appearance Ticket
Westchester Desk Appearance Ticket
Nassau Desk Appearance Ticket
Bronx Desk Appearance Ticket

Online Desk Appearance Ticket Information

If you have received a desk appearance ticket in New York, or if you have been told that you might receive a desk appearance ticket, you probably have questions about what it is going to happen to you and what it all means.

Desk-Appearance-Ticket.com should go a long way toward answering most of your questions in a straightforward, easy to understand format.

All the articles in this site have been provided by Don Murray, Esq., a criminal defense lawyer with more than 17 years experience handling criminal cases in New York City, Westchester, and Nassau County. Mr. Murray is a partner in the criminal defense law firm Shalley & Murray, with offices located in New York City and Westchester County.

If you have additional questions that are unanswered here, or if you want more information, please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Murray directly at 718-268-2171.

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Airport DAT Alert

With two major airports in Queens County (JFK airport and Laguardia airport), and given the heightened security at those airports, there has been a surge in "weapons" related desk appearance tickets.

Travelers appearing at New York Airports who are found to have "weapons" such as small knives (and other similar various objects they may well have forgotten were among their things) can often find themselves on the receiving end of a Desk Appearance Ticket and a whole lot more grief than they would imagine was justified.

"Caught" with a blade at the bottom of your purse that someone put there five years ago? Most people under such circumstances would completely understand if the blade or other object were simply confiscated and destroyed. Most people would not usually expect to be prosecuted criminally, however, especially those without any criminal history.

But those who are lucky enough not to be put through the system for such offenses will almost certainly be given a desk appearance ticket for misdemeanor possession of a weapon charges. These are criminal charges for which a criminal conviction could result and up to one year in jail imposed as a possible sentence.

Aside from being required to return to New York on the court date, the Desk Appearance Ticket may not be the end of your troubles. The Federal Government (Department of Homeland Security) has a separate penalty in store for you as well - a fine that can be hundreds, even thousands of dollars. And no it isn't double jeopardy.

In the wake of the 9-11-01 tragedy, the Queens District Attorney's Office takes any criminal accusation arising at an airport highly seriously. That goes double for any accusation involving a weapon, even a weapon you might consider trivial. You would be well advised to take such a desk appearance ticket highly seriously yourself.