Can't Keep Me From Getting to You Locate and Social Media Strategies

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

2. 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

3. NC State Case Registry FCR 3

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is on the NDNH? NCP’s Paycheck $$$$ • 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

10. External Locate Sources WExternal 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

11. 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 SSA Paid out $57.8M in March 2010 11

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

13. Then get started!! • Whitepages.com or 411.com Directory Assistance, FreePeopleSearch • Zabasearch.com Free People Search • Zoominfo.com Person & Employer Search Engine http://www.zoominfo.com • Find people on Social Networking Sites • Try Wink.com or Spock.comhttp://www.spock.com 13

14. 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

15. It’s amazing what you can find! • Military Locators & Searches • Inmate Searches & Lookups • Find a Person’s Forwarding Address • Google the Person • http://www.google.com • Google Maps • Google Images • Pipl.com http://www.pipl.com/ • Spokeo at www.spokeo.com 15

16. Just amazing!

18. 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

19. Popular Sites • My Space • Twitter • Facebook • Linkedin • YouTube

20. 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

21. 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?

22. 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

23. 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

24. Information Available • People list their hometown, High School, day and month of birth, phone numbers, emails. • 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

25. 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

26. Share Your Strategies and Successes

27. Contact Carol Wallace cwallace@ywcss.com Millie Bellamy millie.bellamy@dhhs.nc.gov 27