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DMV Outages Across Orange, Los Angeles Counties

A Tuesday outage at Costa Mesa DMV offices and across California caused major complaint with citizens. Key services were unavailable.

NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Were you turned away at the DMV today?

Dozens of Department of Motor Vehicle offices in Orange County, Los Angeles County and across the state were unable to offer key services Tuesday while crews worked to correct major computer outage.

DMV officials said the outage occurred Monday, and crews have been "working all night to rebuild the system and get offices back up and running."

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Affected DMV offices are still able to provide driving tests, help customers with paperwork, answer questions and reschedule appointments. The department noted that its website was not affected, so online services remain available.

Local offices affected by the outage include those in Arleta, Bell Gardens, Bellflower, Compton, Costa Mesa, El Monte, Fullerton, Glendale, Hawthorne, Hollywood, Inglewood, the Los Angeles Driver License Processing Center, Los Angeles Metro Business Service Center, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Newhall, Pasadena, Pomona, Santa Ana, Santa Monica, Torrance, Van Nuys, West Covina, West Hollywood, Westminster, Whittier, Winnetka and Woodland Hills.

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