NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release
	Contact: Ronne Mendelson Texas Local Interactive 972-866-3912 or 214-697-5525 rmendelson@nicusa.com

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DALLAS – January 28, 2003 – Paying for a Dallas County traffic ticket just got easier. Citizens can now pay for Dallas County Traffic Tickets by going to www.tickets.dallascounty.org or to the Dallas County Online Web site, www.dallascounty.org. MasterCard, Visa, and Discover payments are accepted through Dallas County's secure server, and there is no fee for paying tickets online.

For people who do not have Internet access, Dallas County traffic tickets can be paid with a credit card over the phone through the Dallas County Interactive Voice Response (IVR) at 214-904-3188.

Developed, hosted, and maintained by Dallas-based Texas Local Interactive, Inc., Dallas County Online was recognized in September 2002 as an eGovernment leader by the Gartner Group study on eGovernment Best Practices. Texas Local Interactive is a wholly owned subsidiary of eGovernment provider NIC (Nasdaq: EGOV).

Along with online and IVR payment of traffic tickets, Dallas County Online offers citizens the ability to make online payments for property taxes, vehicle registration renewals, Justice of the Peace court fines and fees, felony fees, and online record searches including criminal background checks, probate searches and assumed name lookup searches.

About Texas Local Interactive

Texas Local Interactive built, markets, operates, and maintains the official Web sites for Dallas County, Texas (www.DallasCounty.org), and Corpus Christi, Texas (www.ccTexas.com). Texas Local Interactive is a wholly owned subsidiary of eGovernment firm NIC.

About NIC

NIC (www.nicusa.com) delivers more online government solutions than any provider in the world. The company is helping transform the relationship between government and the communities it serves by providing convenient eGovernment services that make life easier for businesses and citizens. Through partnership at all levels of government, NIC manages transactions for over 1,400 state and local agencies that serve more than 67 million people in the United States.

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