There seems to be a mis-conception that if you are not "found guilty" in a court of law for a violation (speeding, tresspassing, etc.) that was issued by your local police authority, then you will have nothing on your "reportable" local police record. This is 100% false. The local police department and the local court system are two seperate and distinct entities. They were designed that way for obvious reasons. Your local police department absolutely has the technology and will absolutely generate a computer report that a violation was written against you, reguardless of the dispostion in a court of law. A great majority of the time, the local police department is totally unaware of the final dispostions of the violations that they write. You can explain to the Academy, however, that your violation was dismissed or reduced in a court of law, which may be helpful....
But in the end, follow you conscience....there is no better guide in matters like this.....when in doubt, follow your conscience.......