Child Support Enforcement
Community policing is based on the premise that no one organization can solve local security problems. Community policing requires partnership, collaboration and joint problem-solving. With the help of the police, and other policing agencies, i.e. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services these programs can be solved. The communities these organizations serve are a major part in the success of the program.
The child support program was established in 1975 by Congress. The program was established to reimburse the government’s welfare programs for benefits paid to families. In 1996, Congress changed the program. The new welfare reform laws expanded the role of technology. It also ensured …show more content…
It is estimated that $34 million in child support obligations nationally remain uncollected. Continued efforts to ensure the enforcement of the Child Support Recovery Act (CSRA) established an initiative with HHS. This established and strengthened the communication between State agencies and United States Attorney Offices in reference to the prosecutions under the CSRA. On the enforcement side, the U.S. Attorneys have undertaken the investigation and prosecution of parents who willfully fail to pay support obligations for a child living in another state. To date, the U.S. Attorneys have filed criminal charges against 71 individuals and obtained 26 convictions (Chapter II Supporting Law Enforcement in the Community).
States vary considerably in their use of civil contempt proceedings. States use the threat of incarceration to enforce child support. About 70 percent of child support payments are collected through income withholding and other automated enforcement procedures. That leaves approximately 30 percent of the child support payments are collected through civil contempt proceedings. Many state child support programs have implemented proactive and early intervention practices to address the underlying reasons for unpaid arrears. This alevates the need for civil contempt proceedings leading to jail …show more content…
These type of orders do not respond well to a criminal-enforcement approach. Failures to pay child support charges are overwhelmingly misdemeanors. The only sanction the district attorney has is to issue a misdemeanor arrest warrant. Police agencies may not even know a misdemeanor warrant has been issued. Police normally focus on felony warrants. If the police did serve a misdemeanor warrant there are few jails that have room for those who are alleged to have committed misdemeanors. If the subject is outside the county, few, counties are willing to pay to extradite a misdemeanor defendant. If the subject of a misdemeanor warrant is found and is in jail, how do we get money from him? If he is in jail, he cannot earn a living. After having been jailed, it becomes less likely that he can earn a living because of his record. From a social point of view, we have achieved the exact opposite of the objective. This has not achieved the intended
Community policing is based on the premise that no one organization can solve local security problems. Community policing requires partnership, collaboration and joint problem-solving. With the help of the police, and other policing agencies, i.e. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services these programs can be solved. The communities these organizations serve are a major part in the success of the program.
The child support program was established in 1975 by Congress. The program was established to reimburse the government’s welfare programs for benefits paid to families. In 1996, Congress changed the program. The new welfare reform laws expanded the role of technology. It also ensured …show more content…
It is estimated that $34 million in child support obligations nationally remain uncollected. Continued efforts to ensure the enforcement of the Child Support Recovery Act (CSRA) established an initiative with HHS. This established and strengthened the communication between State agencies and United States Attorney Offices in reference to the prosecutions under the CSRA. On the enforcement side, the U.S. Attorneys have undertaken the investigation and prosecution of parents who willfully fail to pay support obligations for a child living in another state. To date, the U.S. Attorneys have filed criminal charges against 71 individuals and obtained 26 convictions (Chapter II Supporting Law Enforcement in the Community).
States vary considerably in their use of civil contempt proceedings. States use the threat of incarceration to enforce child support. About 70 percent of child support payments are collected through income withholding and other automated enforcement procedures. That leaves approximately 30 percent of the child support payments are collected through civil contempt proceedings. Many state child support programs have implemented proactive and early intervention practices to address the underlying reasons for unpaid arrears. This alevates the need for civil contempt proceedings leading to jail …show more content…
These type of orders do not respond well to a criminal-enforcement approach. Failures to pay child support charges are overwhelmingly misdemeanors. The only sanction the district attorney has is to issue a misdemeanor arrest warrant. Police agencies may not even know a misdemeanor warrant has been issued. Police normally focus on felony warrants. If the police did serve a misdemeanor warrant there are few jails that have room for those who are alleged to have committed misdemeanors. If the subject is outside the county, few, counties are willing to pay to extradite a misdemeanor defendant. If the subject of a misdemeanor warrant is found and is in jail, how do we get money from him? If he is in jail, he cannot earn a living. After having been jailed, it becomes less likely that he can earn a living because of his record. From a social point of view, we have achieved the exact opposite of the objective. This has not achieved the intended