Yes. Georgia is the one state where the question means exactly what it says and the answer is exactly yes.
Everywhere else this question needs a paragraph of translation. California masks, Texas dismisses, Florida withholds, New York adjusts the suspension math. Georgia reaches into your record and takes points off it. O.C.G.A. 40-5-86: complete a DDS-approved defensive driving course, submit your certificate to the Department of Driver Services, and your point total is reduced by seven points, down to but not below zero. Points that are already there, from tickets you already took the hit on. Once in any five-year period.
Claiming it is almost comically manual. You finish the 6-hour course, then you take the original certificate to a DDS customer service center, or mail it to the DDS in Conyers. The reduction doesn't happen on its own and your course provider doesn't do it for you. Finish the course, sit on the certificate, get nothing.
Context for what 7 points buys you. Georgia violations carry 2 to 6 points each and the state suspends an adult license at 15 points in a 24-month window. Seven points is two or three average tickets wiped from that count. If you're sitting at 10 or 12, this course is the difference between driving and not.
There's a second, less-known use for the same certificate, and it comes straight from the DDS's own reference manual for traffic court judges. If you have a ticket pending, a Georgia court can order you to a driver improvement clinic, or accept a completion certificate you bring in on your own. When it does either, the base fine is reduced by 20 percent and the court can dispose of the violation as a zero-point request, meaning the new ticket lands without points. Whether a judge plays it that way is the judge's call, it's discretionary, but the mechanism is printed in the state's own bench manual, and showing up to court with a completed certificate is the cheapest leverage available to a Georgia driver. The manual is also explicit that a court-side zero-point disposition and the DDS-side 7-point reduction can both happen inside the same five-year period. They're separate tools.
And the insurance angle stacks on top. Georgia law, O.C.G.A. 33-9-42, ties a premium discount to completing the course, about 10% on average in our data, roughly $250 a year on a typical Georgia premium. Courses run roughly $20 to $95 for the 6 hours depending on online versus classroom. Between the fine reduction, the point removal and the discount, Georgia has quietly built the most driver-friendly version of this program in the country, and almost nobody in Georgia knows all three pieces exist.
Every DDS-certified online course we track is compared on the Georgia page.