Okay, pretty plain!!! That was on 6/9, and there is still no warrant for her. The Child Support Recovery office said it takes time to draw up the papers, and then get them to the judge and then back to the cops. But how much time does this take???

During the summer his ex gets his son every other week. We don’t want him at her house when the cops come to arrest her, but we can’t seem to get anyone to give us a time schedule on when this will happen.

Anyone out there have ANY idea??? ANY?????

Best answer:

Answer by PrettyPixels
I’m not in GA but here in PA to get any satisfaction out of the people at Domestic Relations (Child Support office) you need an attorney. I have a friend without an attorney and there are constant warrants out for her ex, she even calls the police and child support office when she see’s him around town telling them the exact location where they can pick him up. They don’t pick him up usually until she really raises a fuss, calls over and over again for weeks on end or he gets picked up by accident for doing something else and they find the warrants for the support in the system by coincidence.

On the other hand, I have an attorney and my ex got so far in arrears that they gave him a set amount of time to pay x amount. He didn’t pay, I picked up my phone and called my attorney when I didn’t get the money and the following weekend he was in jail. For some reason lawyers can make things happen around here when it comes to support enforcement. I don’t know if it’s this way in GA. I am not the only one I know who this happens to and I am still not sure what the mechanics are behind it and why they get results.

I suggest calling a lawyer anyway and find out what you can do and if you can keep your child from the visits so your child isn’t exposed to a scene should she gets arrested. You might also get some muscle behind your issue with the support as well if you have a lawyer.

What do you think? Answer below!

Question by John W: How often do people have to register under California law for sex, arson or narcotics convictions?
Do these individuals have to register for life? What is the consequence if they fail to register? Are photos taken each time they register?

Best answer:

Answer by U.S.Veteran
They have to re-register whenever they move, and yes, their photograph is taken by the police dept. where they move to.

They need to register for the rest of their lives unless a judge states otherwise, and if they fail to register and are caught, they go directly to jail.

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Best answer:

Answer by kelco
I dont think that they will want to watch you pissing in a cup mate x

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Question by CaCO3Girl: Any Child Support Recovery, GA, people on here, or someone that has had an ex thrown in jail for non-payment?
I am becoming exceedingly frustrated. My husband has custody of his son, and his ex was ordered to pay child support. The short story is that she has refused to do this and on 6/9 Child Support recovery took her to court for contempt, and she didn’t even show up for that. We were told “An Arrest order in the full amount of the back child support owed will be issued”. We asked about it more plainly and they said “We are going to lock her in jail and the only way out for her is to come up with everything that she owes you.”

Okay, pretty plain!!! That was on 6/9, and there is still no warrant for her. The Child Support Recovery office said it takes time to draw up the papers, and then get them to the judge and then back to the cops. But how much time does this take???

During the summer his ex gets his son every other week. We don’t want him at her house when the cops come to arrest her, but we can’t seem to get anyone to give us a time schedule on when this will happen.

Anyone out there have ANY idea??? ANY?????
FYI, we waited a full year after we got custody to even bring her to child support recovery. My husband could have asked for hundreds of dollars a week, and he asked for just , because she does have other kids and he didn’t want to be mean. The custody order required child support to be awarded, and we had a hard time with the judge allowing that little. And yes we are worried that my step son will see his mom arrested, but we gave her a year to pay child support, and she felt above it. They suspended her drivers license and she is still above it, they asked her to go to court and explain herself, she didn’t show up. I have no sympathy for someone who has been given every opprotunity to make things right, and just ignors all help because she thinks she is too good for it.

Best answer:

Answer by Chad B
Things take time, that is anything that has to do with bureaucracy does at least. I would imagine it would take anywhere from 30 to 90 days or 4 to 6 business weeks (remember, don’t count weekends!!) I would go down to the police station and ask to speak to who is in charge and explain the situation as nicelyy as possible, it is easier for someone to blow you off on the phone, but harder for them to blow you off in person…..

What do you think? Answer below!

BIDEN: Absolutely no, I would not. The cost of alcoholism in America, the cost of accidents that flow from drunkenness, are astronomical.

DODD: No, I agree with Joe on this. The problems associated with alcohol are significant in our country. The evidence is overwhelming..

RICHARDSON: No, I wouldn’t lower it. I think you need a dual approach: strong law enforcement, but you also have to have substance abuse treatment.

GRAVEL: I think we should lower it. Anybody that can go fight and die for this country should be able to drink.

KUCINICH: Of course they should be able to drink at age 18, and they should be able to vote at age 16.

Q: No on 18?

OBAMA: No.

EDWARDS: What was the question?

Q: Lower the drinking age to 18?

EDWARDS: I would not.
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i noticed a lot of you haven’t finished reading… please read over a couple of times if it freezes your brain don’t bother answering….. No other country in the world has a drinking age as high, and the “statistics” reflect a lack of drinking experience having absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with chronological age

Why do we do all these things for people that do not change.

I never really thought it through when I was younger. It was very simple to me: Drugs are bad, therefore they should be illegal. That was all of the thought I put into it, because I did not think beyond the propaganda that I heard every day in school. I did not think about all of the problems that prohibition causes (even though I had studied prohibition at one point), and I think that most people are pretty much brainwashed by the same propaganda, so most of us don’t bother to think about the negative impact that the “WAR ON DRUGS” has on our society.

If you do not think we should change the laws, then you support drug UNcontrol. Prohibition means NO regulation, and NO control because drugs are pushed underground into criminality. Prohibition does not stop people from making, selling, buying or using drugs. All it does is make drugs impossible to control. The most optimistic reports show that we only interdict 10-15% of drug traffic. That means that prohibition is 85% to 90% ineffective. That also means that we have NO control over recreational substances.

It does not matter if you are for or against drug use. Prohibition is an abject failure. If we put a stop to this irresponsible and detrimental “WAR”, our country could experience a huge DECREASE in:

-Crime (Crime is higher as a result of the war on drugs. In particular, homicides have skyrocketed – 10 per 100,000 – the only other time the homicide rate was so high was during alcohol prohibition. After prohibition, the murder rates dropped by more than HALF)

-Disease,

-Government Spending (A RAND corporation study showed that each dollar spent on education and treatment is 7 times more effective than a dollar spent on criminal interdiction, yet we spend more than 45 BILLION DOLLARS per year on criminal interdiction and incarceration costs, and less than 4 billion dollars on education, treatment, and prevention.
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-Prison Population (According to the American Corrections Association, the average daily cost per state prison inmate per day in the US in 2005 was $67.55. That means it costs states approximately $16,948,295 per day to imprison drug offenders, or $6,186,127,675 per year),

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/prison.htm

-Gangs and Organized Crime (gangs are a product of drug prohibition),

-Corrupt Police (Who wants to live in a police state?),

-Drug Trafficking (obvious reasons),

-Drugs Use among Teens (Drug use INCREASED 7 fold among 12-17 year olds after the modern War on Drugs started. The economics of prohibition favors the targeting of youths. Drug dealers don’t ask for ID),

-Graffiti (Gang tagging creates an enormous graffiti problem causing millions of dollars in damage every year. The gangs are a product of drug prohibition)

-Deaths due to overdose,

-car accidents caused by high speed chases (Where a driver is afraid of being caught with illegal drugs),

-divorce rate (parents would not be separated from the family due to petty possession convictions),

-GUN CONTROL – we have increasingly strict gun control laws because the crime wave that rides on prohibition has caused huge public outcry. Rather than focus on the cause of crime (socioeconomic factors of the drug war are a major component), the public and legislators lash out at gun owners. This would practically REMOVE the government’s pretext to ban guns!

Since Nixon started the modern war on drugs, use among teens is up 7 times. This is because the black market created by prohibition makes underage teens a very easy target. The result is that illegal drugs run rampant through every high school in America. But alcohol, as a legal drug, is much harder for a minor to obtain.

We must remove the profit incentive in the black market for recreational substances – the only way to do that is to end prohibition and replace it with regulation. Congress is granted the power to “regulate commerce”. “Regulate”, to the writers of the Constitution, meant to facilitate the proper functioning of, as when someone regulates a clock to keep proper time, or the barrels of a double rifle to hit the same point of aim

The Rand corporation’s study showed that every dollar spent on education or treatment programs is 7 times more effective that a dollar spent on criminal interdictions. If recreational substances were made available through a regulated and taxed means, just like alcohol, we could focus far more money on education and treatment and as a result, lower drug use and provide for a healthier society. The resultant reduction in crime will provide safer streets for police and citizens, and allow the police to concentrate on real crimes, such as violent crimes. This was one of the rationales behind the repeal of Alcohol Prohibition, and it is still a good idea.

In Holland where both Marijuana and Heroin are legally available, they have HALF the percentage of Marijuana users as in the US, and a THIRD the percentage of heroin users. If heroin were legal tomorrow would you shoot up? No, neither would I. The people that would use heroin already use it, and obtain it through the black market. Available through regulated channels, it would simply end the crime ridden black markets, and promote a healthy environment free of HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis and overdoses.

Prohibition policies are based on fiction. They destroy society by creating an environment of crime and corruption, as well as giving government “Big Brother” powers over the lives, recreational habits, and choices of all citizens.

And prohibition policies create vast bureaucracies. And the lies and propaganda which these bureaucracies must create and disseminate, in order to prop up their fiction, can cause aware and thinking people to develop a tragic deep and permanent distrust of the government, of the hardworking people in law enforcement, and of the political process.

Prohibition and the forces that support it are enemies of liberty and domestic tranquility. While there may be issues with the use, and sometimes abuse, of various recreational drugs like alcohol, those issues and those people that abuse should be dealt with directly, instead of creating an unregulated black market that feeds the mouth of crime. That is all prohibition has ever done, and will ever do.

http://www.drugwarfaq.com/

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-157.html

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/prison.htm

The first web site is very informative about the considerable number of problems that the “WAR ON DRUGS” has given us. I recommend that you read it in its entirety. I do not agree with everything he says, but there is a lot of good info there.
saturn, you didn’t read any of this question, did you?
i agree, whcwarrior. The war on drugs is a PRIODUCT OF LIBERALISM.

I am now 20 years old, yeah a little too old for this freshmen in highschool question huh. But the thing is I have always had a problem making friends and developing good and healthy relationships.

My parents are divorced and I come from a tragically broken home, dont want to get into it, but you wouldn’t know it just by looking at me anyways. I dress mainstream, take great care of myself and am very athletic and spiritually healthy as well. I do volunteer work where I have met some decent ppl but no friends I would go have a drink with if you know what I mean. I go to community college only because I graduated a year late and had a lot of trouble, I’ll start in 9th grade when my mom kicked me out and I had to move to a pretty bad neighborhood in the outskirts of Baltimore MD. (My mom kicked me out because she was having financial trouble and never had enough time to raise me properly reguardless, I knew my guidance counselors better than her, at least it seemed that way many times.)

I started another new school knowing only 1 person from my neighborhood who promised to look after me but sadly forgot his promise after about the first 2 days. This was about the 6th new school I have been to in my adolescence by the way. Had a dfiificult time making friends, got bullied a lot, got in a lot of fights, got arrested, suspended, you name it it happened. By 11th grade we had moved again and I was in about my 9th new school cause I was always getting kicked out or moved around. Not because I was a troublemaker, but because ppl always started stuff with me and many times I was forced to defend myself, yet the school staff always took the side of the kids they knew, plus I had a wrapsheet by this time and not even my dad believed me anymore.

Anyways I got sent to boot camp, I did 3 months in a rehab and another 8 in a halfway house even though I wasn’t an addict it was court ordered. I did a month in county detention, I also did a wilderness program for 4 months which was really wierd, yet strangely I miss the Utah dessert these days, very serene out there and non-hectic, I could use a weeks relaxation. But all this aint do nothing for me except toughen me up more, harden me, and actually give me some stress issues which led to a heart condition for about 2 years which i am still getting over. Way too young for all this shit, I am 20 going on 75. Way too streetwise, way too wise in general, way too god damn spent for my young age. I dont even have the want to go out and party or do things ppl my age do, those type of frivilous things just annoy me, yet I used to party hard and have a good time. The only thing I want to do is play hockey, which I am really friggin good at, but the ppl my age who play think Im a creep or a criminal or something because of how I am, they have’nt seen a fraction of the shit Ive seen and have practically no baggage on their shoulders when I got the world on mine and Im getting tired out from carrying it.

I’ve seen at least 20 therapists, none have helped. I’ve been evaluated, i tried depression meds for a bit even though I dont think Im depressed, needless to say I transitioned off them cause they made me even more numb than i already was. I have a younger brother who dislikes me cause I’m no fun. I only have one-night flings, no relationships cause girls are attracted to me cause I look good but after we do the do there is nothing there because they just want to go out and have fun when Im like more worried about how Im going to pay my bills etc etc. and that shit scares them cause they still with mommy and daddy or have a close knit group of girlfriends at their disposal. Me I got me, myself, and I and thats it. Finito, nada, nobody else except a dad who throws me a few bones when I need it if he can spare it. The only companions I can ever make are ppl usually more messed up than me and just drag me down and create more turmoil which I honestly cannot deal with anymore, I’m hangin by the skin of my teeth and I spend so much energy trying to hide it, it’s so pathetically sorry.

In my college classes ppl seem scared of me, on the rink ppl rarely even acknowledge me or pass me the puck and in the locker room they just sit with their heads down when I come in, I feel like I drag everybody down emotionally just by existing and like I’m not welcome pretty much anywhere other than a rehab facility or a therapist’s office or a church maybe, but even ppl there give me looks of disgust and/or pitty. My dad just says Im paranoid and I’ll be fine, which is good to hear, problem is thats all he ever says and nothing changes anywhere in my life, so I have lost faith in his advice pretty much. Ahh what else can I say, help me out if you can. i
Thankyou everyone for your input, I really appreciate it so much. To answer some of the questions. If I had to judge myself I would say at times I do seem like a loner because I usually was one in high school and now I’m trying to change that. I need to start re-programming this inner critic I have becasue he is very strong and has a way of being able to criticize everything and everyone, but mostly just me. I wish it would just dissapear, but I should know by now, nothing that good comes easy. I need to open up, try and work on taking these barriers down that have built up over time. I need to free myself, thanks for your help, it’s now up to me to change. Even though I have never had a therapist I neccessarily liked, I think I might need to start seeing one, and just try to establish a productive relationship. Thanky guys and gals, you all are great.

Narcotics abuse is undoubtedly a more emotionally complicated crime than other nonviolent offenses such as theft and vandalism, but early attempts to curb abuse lacked the necessary breadth to get addicts clean. Incarceration is not an effective method of freeing drug users from the substances on which they depend.

You cannot always beat a beast into submission, and the national “war on drugs,” as it is currently framed, attempts to do just that. It aims to prevent drug abuse and crimes through the enforcement of strict, blanketed penalties for citizens who violate.

Although national policies on drug prohibition state the goal is to promote public health, more funding, both on a national and local level, is allocated toward criminal investigations and prosecution of drug users than toward education and rehabilitation.

The fruitless brute-force methods established at a federal level are also standard at the local level. The Los Angeles Police Department made 26,131 arrests for violent and property-related crimes in 2003, according to a statistical report released by the chief of police.

The same year, the LAPD made 27,486 narcotics arrests. In short, police officers arrested 1,300 more citizens for narcotics violations than for murders, rapes, thefts, aggravated assaults and larcenies combined.

Despite the widespread arrests for narcotics-defined crimes in 2003, the effects the arrests had on usage was negligible. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the number of adult users and abusers remained at a flat line.

Crime statistics show that harsh sentencing for nonviolent drug possession convictions is ineffective in deterring repeat offenses, but further analysis reveals that incarceration for those first offenses could increase the probably of a second offense. Relapse rates are more than 70 percent from all forms of criminal justice interventions and corrections-oriented approaches alone, according to the U.N. Office on Drug and Crime.

California took a step in the right direction in November of 2000 when it passed Proposition 36 – the initiative that allows people with first- and second-time drug possession convictions to receive drug treatment instead of incarceration – but implementation and funding issues have prevented the proposition from being wholly successful.

Officials at the district attorney’s office told the L.A. Weekly that they had expected the primary patients enrolling in the rehabilitation programs to be recreational users – not full-blown addicts. The money allocated to fund rehabilitation programs and medical treatment is insufficient for the more typical, heavily addicted individuals who frequently require longer, more expensive treatments in residential facilities instead of 12-step outpatient program.

Recent state and county cutbacks have been devastating to already strained programs made possible by Prop. 36. To further complicate matters, the sheer size of the county coupled with the lack of money makes proper regulation of the program near impossible to assess.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, effective drug treatment programs combine the necessary medical aid and social services required to get the addicted individual back on track. Prop. 36 has made headway in providing Californians in need with a chance at restored chemical freedom, but without additional well-funded social welfare programs such as job placement services, access to medical and mental health treatment facilities, and counseling services, the success of the legislation is extremely limited.

A more compassionate solution to the drug problem is not only more humane, it’s more cost effective. Every dollar spent on drug and alcohol abuse treatment saves the public $7, according study findings released by the state in 1994.

To successfully combat drug abuse and drug-related crime in California, the state needs to ensure that allocating funding for rehabilitation programs is a priority.

In addition to the court-mandated programs created by Prop. 36, the city needs to make comprehensive voluntary rehabilitation programs accessible to drug addicts who want to change before they’re picked up by the police. The earlier people are given a hand to make the change, the sooner they will.

It’s easy to demonize drug addicts and dismiss jail sentences that still too frequently follow possession convictions, but blame doesn’t create change.

An addict with hopeless prospects has a hard time finding motivation to get clean, but if the society around that addict is willing to offer guidance, support and the promise of brighter future for the willing, the incentive to get sober suddenly becomes tangible .

Compassion must become a fundamental element in the rehabilitation system, and compassion starts with understanding. Prop. 36 was a great start, but there’s still a long road ahead.

I am a grown man, yet they intend to protect me from myself by taking away the liberty to choose for myself; and If I don’t like it, then I should leave America?
…America was formed on the philosophy of liberty. I have a right to choose, and if I choose wrong then I suffer the consequences… yet many American people believe their tax dollars should go to my arrest, conviction and incarceration for smoking marijuana. So it is not I ‘suffering’ any longer, it is all of America.

The cost to put a single drug dealer in jail is about $450,000, composed of the following: The cost for arrest and conviction is about $150,000. The cost for an additional prison bed is about $50,000 to $150,000, depending upon the jurisdiction. It costs about $30,000 per year to house a prisoner. With an average sentence of 5 years, that adds up to another $150,000. The same $450,000 can provide treatment or education for about 200 people. In addition, putting a person in prison produces about fifteen dollars in related welfare costs, for every dollar spent on incarceration. Every dollar spent on treatment and education saves about five dollars in related welfare costs.

Thats good money the government could instead use to educate people of the United States on the bad effects of drugs, so why not legalize drugs, put them on the open market, and stop the homicides and theft created by drug wars? Or was Nobel-prize winning economist, Milton Friedman wrong?

“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.” — Milton Friedman

“I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.” — Milton Friedman

“If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey? Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.” — Milton Friedman
Are these not the principles and philosophies of liberty that our nation was founded on?
latj, Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have

Yes, people will end up dead, but that is their choice, they are the owners of their lives, no one else

There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that’s legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare
I don’t want to live in a society without rules, I wan’t to live in a society without restrictions on how I should live my life. The government has one purpose; to protect the liberties of everyone from anyone else, not to protect ourselves from ourselves

Do you believe it is fair for the court system to mandate a treatment program that is faith based?

Should a secular treatment program be mandated instead, for those in need of treatment who are not religious or spiritual??

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/08/BA99S1AKQ.DTL&hw=court+ruling+AA&sn=001&sc=1000

I’m not against mandated treatment, but I am against mandated religion.

Basically I am giving you free reign to decide how to judge which of these people should get a kidney.

1)A pregnant women with AIDS who works as a prostitute.

2) A member of a militant terrorist group who is in the US and is feared to have been planning an attack on the US.

3) A 40 year old diabetic male who is blind from diabetic retinopathy. (damage to the eye)

4) A 50 year old male in prison for murdering his pregnant wife 15 years ago.

5) A 35 year old mother of 3 girls who has breast cancer. She has been treated for a year and is not cured but the chemo has destroyed her kidneys. Cancer has spread to her lungs and possibly bones.

6) A 44 year old male alcoholic who has had no success with AA or any other form of treatment for his alcohol problem.

7) 70 year old female with severe osteoporosis and fractured hip.

8) 15 year old teen who Over Dosed on drugs. He has permanent brain damage from the OD and is addicted to cocaine.

9) A 35 year old male in prison for rape.

10) 10 year old boy who is blind and deaf and has several other birth defects.

So you decide in which order they should get the kidney. If you can, give your philosophical or even personal opinion on why you ordered them as you did.
This is NOT homework help. It was just mentioned in class and I found it interesting.