The Department of Motor Vehicles has restored services to all but 21 field office websites after hundreds of offices were affected by computer hardware failure.

The Newhall office is currently one of the offices that are back online and working.

The DMV made significant progress overnight in getting offices impacted by the computer hardware failure back online.

As of 8:30 a.m., 16 remain down, and 11 are providing driver license transactions. The DMV has 188 facilities, including field offices, which serve the public.

If the department is unable to process your transaction due to the system outage, to avoid paying penalties on a vehicle registration, complete a Statement of Facts (REG 256) or write a letter explaining why you were late and the penalty may be waived.

The DMV apologizes for any inconvenience the field office outages have caused our customers. DMV staff has been working around the clock to get all the field office issues resolved. Many offices have been coming back up throughout the day.

The repairs to the system have taken longer than we anticipated. While the IT repairs are nearly complete, work still needs to be done by field office staff to complete the process. We’re working as quickly as possible.

The next steps include conducting a review of our system to ensure this situation won’t happen again. We thank our customers for their patience and remind them that DMV online services are available and to check the DMV website for the operational status of their local field office.