Grace_Adler
Senior Member
Thanks Whyte Noise.
Speaking of bench warrents, in NC, caseworkers don't have the power to issue anything. Even law enforcement has to go to the judge or magistrate to get a warrant. If CSE needs a warrant, they have to have the attorney who works for CSE ask for one and the judge will issue it. A person also has to be served first before they can issue a warrant for failure to appear. It doesn't matter if they have failed to serve them 100 times, they can't issue a warrant for their arrest unless they have been properly served and fail to appear.
As for the Patriot Act thing, I know in NC, they don't have a problem at all getting people's info. I know people that have child support cases, and getting public assistance and they have to check DMV records and all that and they don't have any type of problem whatsoever. The Patriot Act is supposed to give government agencies more access to info, not less. I don't know why they're having such a hard time, but other ones aren't. Regardless, it is still their job to help locate "absent" parents- I believe that's the term they use. And if it wasn't, then they wouldn't have it on a federal and state website stating so. So they need to get on the ball and do whatever it takes. That's what they get paid to do. Their job includes, assisting in locating absent parents, establishing child support orders and enforcing them, so that's what they need to do.
Speaking of bench warrents, in NC, caseworkers don't have the power to issue anything. Even law enforcement has to go to the judge or magistrate to get a warrant. If CSE needs a warrant, they have to have the attorney who works for CSE ask for one and the judge will issue it. A person also has to be served first before they can issue a warrant for failure to appear. It doesn't matter if they have failed to serve them 100 times, they can't issue a warrant for their arrest unless they have been properly served and fail to appear.
As for the Patriot Act thing, I know in NC, they don't have a problem at all getting people's info. I know people that have child support cases, and getting public assistance and they have to check DMV records and all that and they don't have any type of problem whatsoever. The Patriot Act is supposed to give government agencies more access to info, not less. I don't know why they're having such a hard time, but other ones aren't. Regardless, it is still their job to help locate "absent" parents- I believe that's the term they use. And if it wasn't, then they wouldn't have it on a federal and state website stating so. So they need to get on the ball and do whatever it takes. That's what they get paid to do. Their job includes, assisting in locating absent parents, establishing child support orders and enforcing them, so that's what they need to do.