Can't Keep Me From Getting to You Locate and Social Media Strategies North Carolina Child Support Council and Attorney’s Annual Conference August 22-24, 2012 Asheville, North Carolina

The FPLS Federal child support system used to support child support enforcement agencies for the purpose of: Locating parents Identifying employment benefits and assets Establishing paternity Setting and modifying child support orders Enforcing support obligations 2

State Case Registry 3 FCR

Non-IV-D Orders After 10/1/98 All IV-D Cases Federal Case Registry 4

Archie & Veronica Texas Archie & Betty California FCR FCR Proactive Matching 5

W-4 SDNH Reporting 6 20 Days Employment Information Employers SDNH New Employee Completes W-4 form SDNH

NDNH to FCR Proactive Match 7 North Carolina Employers 20 DAYS SDNH 2 DAYS CSE 8 DAYS NDNH FCR

FCR To NDNH Proactive Matching Archie & Veronica Mississippi NDNH FCR Oregon Employer 8

What is on the NDNH? New hire reports (W-4) Employer name and address IWO address Employee address Quarterly wage (QW) records Employer name and address IWO address Wages and percent of difference from previous quarter Indicator of no W-4 Unemployment insurance (UI) records Employee name and address Benefit amount Pending, paid and denied claims 9 NCP’s Paycheck $$$$

External Locate Sources W External locate sources provide additional locate data from sources not maintained by the FPLS. Federal agencies include: Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Security Agency (NSA) Social Security Administration (SSA) 10

SVES Title II Pending Claims Participants who file for retirement or disability Daily match with FCR Data is not stored Send income withholding order SSA will hold IWO until awarded 11 SSA Paid out $57.8M in March 2010

Gather as much info as possible 12 Entire Name Names of Ex Spouses Nicknames or Aliases High School(s) attended Known Associates, Friends and Coworkers City, State of birthCity, State raised in Current and Previous Addresses

Then get started!! Whitepages.com or 411.com Directory Assistance, Free People Search Zabasearch.com Free People Search Zoominfo.com Person & Employer Search Engine Find people on Social Networking Sites Try Wink.com or Spock.com 13

Don’t give up.... Use Blog (weblog) Search Engines Craigslist.com Online Classified Search Domainsearch.com Reverse Address and Phone Number Look up Search Contact Neighbors, Known Relatives, Mutual Friends, Associates & Contacts 14

It’s amazing what you can find! Military Locators & Searches Inmate Searches & Lookups Find a Person’s Forwarding Address Google the Person Google Maps Google Images Pipl.com Spokeo at 15

Just amazing!

Social Networking Phenomenon of online social networking Profiles: User’s Personal profiles Security: All social networks should provide the ability to set profiles to private or block users Search: The object of a social network is to find friends and expand relationships

Popular Sites My Space Twitter Facebook Linkedin YouTube

Facebook: Types of Accounts Pages, People, Places. Public Account/Business Account: “Like them” to get more info. Personal Accounts: Do you really want to be their friend or just get their information? Fictitious Accounts: Same as the personal account

Should Your Office Build a Facebook Page? Designed to provide information about the office and it's FREE. Clients able to get contact info to contact the office for information. Most people do not know you are looking for them so using this type of account can be okay. Problem - their profile is listed as private. Will they accept you as a friend?

Personal Accounts Can search for individuals Problems arise when the other person marks their profile as private Ways to get the person to befriend you Ability for them to see your personal information Threats from unhappy individuals

Fictitious Profile Controversial issues about false information Need to keep the information as real as possible Using a picture on the account is helpful Keeps people from getting your personal information

Information Available People list their hometown, High School, day and month of birth, phone numbers, s. Jobs and average income People tell what they are doing and who they are doing it with. Pictures of assets People bragging about their occupations and successes

Policy for Each Account Twitter prohibits its users from sending deceptive or false information Linkedin is for professionals and they require that you do not send or download information that will be injurious or harmful to others My Space requires that all the information placed on the site is truthful, factual, and trustworthy Facebook specifies that users will not provide false personal information

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