| Comment Number: | 531096-00241 |
| Received: | 9/4/2007 4:49:14 PM |
| Organization: | Snoops Detective Agency |
| Commenter: | Robert Mansfield |
| State: | IN |
| Agency: | Federal Trade Commission |
| Rule: | Private Sector Use of SSNs |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
To Whom It May Concern; September 4, 2007 I would like to let you know how I feel about the right for Private Investigators having access to the Social Security Numbers. We have had two cases just recently that meant so much to our clients. One case was a young mother of a son. She had tried to get paternity tests done to prove the father of her son. She went to the Family Services. She went to the Prosecutor and to the parents of the man who was the father of her child. Noone would or could help her. At the government offices that she went to, all told her to get his social security number and we will get him into court to prove he's the father.She had no access to any records or documents with this information on it, so years went by. The man who had fathered the child wanted no part of being a parent and enlisted into the service in the hopes that nothing would come of the claims that he was the father. The man was sent to the Gulf War and was killed in action. The child was not only entitled to the support for several years that noone took any action, but now he should be entitled to collect a stipend from the government due to the death of the child's father. The woman again went to the prosecutor's office and again was told that she needed to provide the social security number before they could help her. Obviously, the prosecutor's office could have gotten the socical security number for her, but didn't take the time or maybe didn't have the resources to hire someone to look up the information. She came to us. It took me about three hours, in part because the woman didn't have a birth date on the father, but we were able to give the woman the information she needed to pursue the claim for her son. Another case that we recently investigated involved a woman who had tried for fourteen years to find the father of her daughter and have him served for court papers to obtain paternity tests. Once again, she was met with the same response as before. You get us the information and we will serve him. Fourteen years is inexcusable. The officials that are allowed to have the access to the information won't use it for their clients. The private investigators that actually use the information to see that the clients rights are met are the ones that are at risk of losing the right to get the socical security numbers to serve the community's needs that are not being met We respectfully request that our right to obtain information on socical security numbers be preserved. We want to ensure that the persons that we are looking for are found and held accountable for the children that they helped to produce and to keep the children out of the welfare system that our tax dollars are paying for. If you don't want to see the welfare client lists increase.then we respectfully ask that you preserve our right to access the social security numbers. Please don't handicap our ability to help our clients. Sincerely, Robert Mansfield Snoops Detective Agency