Exhibit E - David Perry Davis
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Exhibit E - David Perry Davis
RE Support related license suspensions.txt Date: Fri, 23 Jan 201516:59:22 -0400 To: Brenda Beacham <[email protected]> From: "David Perry Davis, Esq." <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Support related license suspensions Cc: Joanne Dietrich <[email protected]>, Liz Domingo <Liz. Dom [email protected]>, Scott Welfel <[email protected]> Dear Ms. Beacham: Thanks for getting back to me on the issue of the automatic suspension of driver's licenses upon the issuance of a support-related warrant. The warrants at issue are "bring to court" warrants. Their purpose, pursuant to Directive #15-08 "is to bring the obligor before the court on an expedited basis in the event of alleged non-compliance" with a support obligation. The system as it now operates, issues a warrant requiring an obligor's expedited physical appearance and, at the same time, by operation of law, suspends the person's ability to appear by revoking their license. I've attached a document ("New Jersey Judiciary Report to the Legislature on the Suspension of Licenses Due to Child Support Arrears State Fiscal Year 2006"). Is.it possible t08.§.!§.rmJQ§,,:,:, who wrote this, and what data was used to support its conclusions? ;§R~¢j@'~!IY;i;1n§>B_ephrVlbU ,5ii1fii~i!t~E!i!~if~!~i!~liiiiii I'm cc'ing this email to Scott Welfel onhe'New'j'ersey"lnstitute for Social Justice, who may be co-counsel on litigation regarding this issue. Please Cc your response as well. Thanks, Please confirm that you received this email and referenced attachments (if any}. - Dave David Perry Davis, Esq. www.FamilyLawNJ.pro 112 West Franklin Avenue Pennington, NJ 08534 Voice: 609-737-2222 Fax: 609-737·3222 At 02:47 PM 1/21/2015, Brenda Beacham wrote: Dear Mr. Davis, This is to acknowledge receipt of your correspondence. We will research your questions and respond back to you shortly. From: David Perry Davis, Esq. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 20157:04 PM To: Brenda Beacham; Joanne Dietrich Subject: Support related license suspensions / changing the law Printed for "David Perry Davis, Esq." <[email protected]> KAVADAS MER-L-I004-15 000001 1 . .,:ff.f!f:New .'i.·III' ROBER'I'W. Jersey Courts AdtriinlstrativeUffice of th~Courts !lIdllpende'oi;e 'Irit~(!ty 'fajrneSS'QliaUty~rvlCi! GLENNA. GRANT., I.A.P. SMITH Director Office. of Tri:il Court Senr1ccSc Acting Adi:riinisttativ¢ Pitcetoi:9f .tbe Courts wWw.rijcouits.com e JOANNE t\'i.DI~TRlCH Assistai,lI.Dlredot FanillyPracrice Division Phone: .609-'984"4228, Fax; 6:O9~984-()061 F~bru~1Y27, 2015 'David PerryOavis, Esq. 112We.st Fr~nklirlAvenue Pennington, NJ 08534 Re: Support Relaied License Suspensions p~ar Mr. Qavis; ThiswHlacknowledge receiptof your January 13; 2015 andJantJ~ry '23j2015 emails concerning child supportmallers. :With regard to.your questions regarding (a) federal funding; (Q) cJ~tpand (p) the practices of other states, those questions wouldbe pest anS1gerecl15Yth:~.New Jer~eY Divis.ion.ofFami\y Dt:)"elopmel'lt(OFD) in the Departmentofl4wnail. Services; which. as Y9l;l~now, 1$New Jersey's the~esi9nated TiUe IV~Dagericy. Wfth.tegard to YOllrcornltlemts<concethihgpossiblestatutoty amendments, any such chang.egto lhelaWWouldbe Withih the purview of the ~egislatl;lre ramer thantqe,JJJPlciary. You inquitedas' to.the source oftheaocurnel'lt entitled "New Jersey Jyd/c'iary Due to Child SupportArrears Fhspal Year2006"; that report Was .authoredby the Judiciary; While the reportit§eJfj~, Rep,orito the Le,gislature on the SUspensJonofLicensas e:~~=!;~;~f~~~;=~=l~i~=~= Very frul:y yours. ,~, ~-""-.' C:f , ..~..·.· ·.. ~~~ "Joe ...'. M. DIetrich Asst Director, Family Practice Di\iisfon . ,c:$teven O. Bonvillei Chief6f Staff Robert W.Srnith, Dlreotcr, Trial GOllrtServices g:ljz;~beth Domingo,.Assistant Direcfbr,PropationSeNideS Brendel BeClphel/TI, Chief, Probation S.ervices Guq5ree.t SitIgh,SpeQia/-Assistaht RicnlltdJ. Hughes·justiooConlplex· P:.b.Box983·Trenton, KAVADAS MER-L-I004-15 000002 New Jersey O!lS25.0983 OPRA W95220.txt From: Katherine Howard <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> CC: John Zajac <[email protected]> Subject: OPRA W95220 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:53:58 +0000 Mr. Davis: Please accept the following response from the Division of Family Development (DFD) regarding your Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request W95220, as follows: ~~i~~K:i~~~~Y~~E~~~c'~!i~~ii8f:g~~~~;~;~~~~~.~~:~t:6~~ffff~S~iY~m~§~<9ttDg:,grj,yer.JiCen§eW t;j'Brn"S:rRes'PoiisEr:",;D'F5d~.~,:nQt:R9~~.~~,~'!h,~:~t~J:iLJest¥d:aotGmerits'~'jZ; (2) To your knowledge, does any other state aside from New Jersey provide for the automatic ("by operation of law") suspension of driver's licenses upon the issuance of a support-related warrant? DFD's Response: This portion of your OPRA request does not identify a government record. Accordingly, this portion of your request is denied. See MAG Entertainment, LLC v. Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534, 549 (App. Div. 2005)("Under OPRA, agencies are required to disclose only "identifiable" governmental records not otherwise exempt.") (3) Documents demonstrating how many licenses have been suspended annually by orders from the Family Part? (Either directly or via the NJKIDS system). (3a) Please provide data as far back as you can reasonably access it. I am interested in seeing the jum p in 1997-1998 when the "automatic suspension" provision was added into N.J.SA 2A:17-56.41. (3b) If broken down this way, how many of these suspensions were automatic as a result of the issuance of a warrant, and how many suspended after a hearing where the factors were weighed and it was specifically determined that a license suspension would have a coercive effect over and above the entry of an arrest warrant? . Response: The following NJKiDS data.&~J;;Qfiy.§t,[$l:!j~~,q~$.$};;Ytt,~tl?iSLJsperlded:,~§.!~~:L~§yll!2f &%fcibEfnch'WarraQ:ti'i[~1 professional licenses were suspended as a result of a hearing. I?~!?'s Year Year Year Year Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Driver's Licenses 12,055 14,412 12,864 15,012 14,223 Professional Licenses I 5 / --------------------------------------------------------------------_\ Printed for "David Perry Davis, Esq." <[email protected]> 1 KAVADAS MER-L-I004-15 000003 A