My issue is about my 14 year old, 4th time in 8 months, runaway daughter, from Columbus, Ohio. She has been gone for one month. There have been 4 calls from her or about her since she has been gone. I was told by my local poice dept. that a judge would have to sign a subpoena in order to get any identifying information on where those calls were made from. After insisting for a better answer, I was informed that I could do what is called a Trap Trace or *57 proceedure with my phone company. 5 - 10 minutes before the last time l heard from my distressed sounding daughter, a man called me to tell me that my daughter was just at his house in Utah!!! a couple of days ago and that she had left with 2 males that he did not know and thats why he was really calling me. I asked him more questions and eventually he hung up on me. Then my daughter called 3 minutes after his call and I was able to do a *57 trap trace on her call. My daughter sounded distressed and the call ended abruptly after 1 - 2 minutes. I was frantic! After cutting through ALL of the red tape for doing this trap trace procedure, I found out the next day that my daughter had called from a cell phone, which might not even have a registered location. So now, the next step, as I was told, is to see if a judge WILL sign a subpoena to see if the phone is a registered phone and to whom, or to see the location of the tower that the cell phone "pinged" from if it's not registered. I have been informed PLENTY of times now that a judge will NEVER sign a subpoena for an endangered runaway, who calls home often enough and is suspected to be alive and well. If only every parent of a runaway could be this lucky, huh? But what I am asking for is that all 4 of the incoming calls from or about Jazmine be traced. It only takes a few minutes to gather the information and send it to the police by way of fax. This doesn't seem to unreasonable a thing to ask for, to help aid in the search to find my "endangered runaway daughter". At least I would have a perimeter to start looking at to TRY to find her. And nothing is more important to me. I have the money, time and family resources to try to find my daughter right now, today, but the law is prohibiting this information from being released. If the resources are there and can be used properly and not hurt anyone, why cant this be an option? I understand about not giving the parent the information directly. I have no issues with it being giving to the police and letting them tell me what city and state to start looking in first. I don't even know if she is still in ohio, and the information is there! In my humble opinion, if we have a resource we should use it to help find this child, before it is too late. Especially if finding her is more at my own expense than the states.
Can someone PLEASE guide me in the right direction about the Ohio laws governing this type of situation? Any advice or a direct link to the right government site would be soooo appreciated. I have found a few links, but the subject I am seeking is burried under loads of other juvenile law stuff. I refuse to file unruly charges yet, as everyone recommends. If my daughter isn't lucky enough to make it back home OR if I am ever graced to see her beautiful face again, I VOW TO HELP TRY TO CHANGE THIS LAW! All I need is pointed in the right direction, and quickly please!
Thank you so much in advance.

