{"id":399547,"date":"2026-07-15T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399547\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:48:31","slug":"california-dmv-suspects-thousands-of-drivers-cheated-on-written-tests-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399547\/","title":{"rendered":"California DMV suspects thousands of drivers cheated on written tests, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Thousands of California-licensed drivers are being required to retake their written tests because the DMV reportedly suspects them of cheating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Last month, the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/california-dmv-orders-11000-drivers-retake-written-test-receiving-letter-stated-irregularities\/19466180\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DMV sent letters to some 11,000 drivers<\/a> saying that their knowledge test results showed &#8220;irregularities.&#8221; That sparked confusion and frustration, but the department did not provide specifics about what issues were found with those tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Some speculated there were technical or clerical issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But those irregularities are &#8220;test taker related,&#8221; according to a DMV statement cited in a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-07-15\/dmv-suspects-cheating-says-11-000-californians-must-retake-written-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report from the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, and not an internal issue or the result of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Times report states that DMV identified patterns in the results of driver knowledge tests indicating that some individuals &#8220;may have attempted to circumvent the testing process using various cheating methods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Further information about those suspected patterns of cheating were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Meanwhile, an unspecific number of those cases have been referred to district attorneys for prosecution, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Drivers who received the letter must retake the written test within 30 days or have their licenses revoked.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of California-licensed drivers are being required to retake their written tests because the DMV reportedly suspects them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[160413,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-399547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-160413","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}