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I have already said here in KY, if they run your SSN, IT's obviously attached to a DL.
Okay, let me explain this slowly ... your Social Security Number (SSN) is issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA). The record maintained by the SSA does NOT have ANY physical descriptors. AND! The SSN cannot be run through the SSA by an officer in the field. SO, what limited info IS there is NOT readily available.

IF (and it's a BIG "if") they used your SSN, they likely ran it in conjunction with your name and DOB and came back with a match on your driver's license and used THAT information on the citation.

It is also possible that if you have had any prior tickets or police contacts as a witness, victim, suspect, etc., that your SSN was in a local (city or county) computer database and paired with your name in THAT system. But, since it is highly unusual for an officer to run a person using an SSN except to try and match a hit on an arrest warrant, I'd wager that they ran the name and birthdate given to them and NOT the SSN.

But once again, if the ****ed up sloppy ass cop would have looked at what he printed on his little ass computer, and looked at the person standing in front of his face, it would have clearly went a different way.
And the officer almost certainly did not have a computer with him while inside the business. He almost certainly used a phone or radio to contact a dispatcher or records clerk and copied the info they were provided.

You are certainly free to complain to the agency or to interview attorneys and see if any of them will sue the police on contingency. Chances are they would want payment up front because the potential award would be small and hardly a certainty.

I agree that if the description was significantly off that the officer should have taken additional steps to guarantee identification. However, as I have stated, being sloppy does not necessarily rise to the level of unreasonable or even an event that is actionable.

THE DAMN DUDE LOOKS NOTHING LIKE THE DISCRIPTION. Anyway, im done trying to explain myself 100000 times.
Maybe you could try listening one time.