I need a new state ID in KY but I have a warrant, will they run my name and have a deputy arrest me?
I need a new state ID in KY but I have a warrant, will they run my name and have a deputy arrest me?
This question gets asked a lot.
Of course, they'll "run your name." It's automatic. Whether their computers are set up to bring up the warrant is anybody's guess.
It's also impossible to predict whether or not the clerk will call an officer.
So, just like any other criminal, you'll just have to sweat out the possibility of getting arrested on the spot.
If you're going to motor vehicles for your ID, there is a great possibility that you will be arrested. Motor Vehicle computers are connected with the Criminal Courts computers. That is how motor vehicles find out who is suspended through the court system and it is the criminal court computer that knows who has an active warrant or not.
Even if we assume the unlikely possibility that the Idaho DMV runs a warrant search every time somebody tries to obtain or renew a driver's license or state ID card, it would be unlikely that the warrant search would turn up a warrant from another state. Still, whatever the odds, it's a roll of the dice.
You know that for a fact, in Idaho, that the DMV is tied into all criminal courts across the state, not just to driving records? Do you have a source for that assertion? And that search will also turn up out-of-state warrants?
Take a look at C. Data-Sharing Capabilities in the forth paragraph. It will explain that it shares information with other government agencies as well as law enforcement.
https://www.brennancenter.org/analys...cles-databases
This page states that Idaho is a participating state.
http://www.aamva.org/uploadedFiles/M...er%20Dates.pdf
You will note that the reference is to sharing data from a state DMV to other agencies. The fact that DMV's distribute their data to their offices and potentially to other agencies lends zero support to your claim that DMV offices draw information directly from court systems throughout a state, let alone from other states. The fact that a court can access a defendant's driving history does not translate into the DMV's being able to review a defendant's court records.
On the other hand, it doesn't mean they can't. I can't vouch for arrest records, but many of the state DMVs pull (or are given) child support violations which can be a block to licensing/registration.
The answer is you can always be arrested on a warrant. Even if you're hiding in a hole in your backyard.
My understanding and from reading on another site, they do comunacat with eachother. I will try and dig it out once I get time.