Info from the Indiana Civil Rights Council

[Brent]

Greetings:

In a nutshell, EVERY parental rights agenda, whether (A) legal challenges, (B) communication
campaigns to members of legislatures, (C) public rallies, or (D) etc., needs **many** more
interested people to join and support those causes, and as fast as can be humanly done!

Problem = how to find and contact all of those other millions of noncustodial parents?

Solution = use the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) to force the states - themselves - to tell us
the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of every noncustodial parent under a Title IV-D
child support order. Since every divorce/custody/paternity/etc case is, by definition of law, a
matter of public record, that "party information" for all of those other millions of noncustodial
parents is, also therefore, information obtainable under the FOIA - because Title IV-D
information is... **federal** information!

Each FOIA request is filed with the agent in charge of Title IV-D child support for a given
county. This is typically either the actual/named/official county clerk herself/himself, or some
other officially-named person. Once your FOIA is filed, they only have 20 working days to
provide the information, and in 95% of the counties in this country, that information will be
provided in an easy-to-use electronic format -> on floppy disks, cd-rom, or by email.

Even better, in almost every case, federal law requires that the information shall be provided at
**no cost** - all you need is a printer, 2 sheets of paper, and an envelope. However, it is highly
recommended that the FOIA request be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, so as to
have a formal record of proof of filing the request, and of the date it was filed.

GO HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE "NCP" FOIA REQUEST, AND TO GET MORE INFO:
http://www.indianacrc.org/FOIA.html

Please distribute this information as widely as possible...TODAY... Ideally, there should be one
person per each of the approx 3142 counties in the United States filing their FOIA request with
that particular county, or maybe one person for each 2-3 counties, just to get it going faster.

[c_alexander]

This is a inovative solution. I agree that we NEEd to get more people involved in fighting for parents rights. I thkn a BIG problem is getting everyone on the same page. Everyone has their own agenda and their own ideas about HOW to bring about change, but until EVERYONE is acting together we are simply waisting our breath. There are too many voices all saying different things but the same idea. Imagine a church choir all singing different hymns at the same time. I'd jsut be a bunch of noise, BUT if all the choir members sing the same song together the power of their voices is amplified. We need unification if we are every going to accomplish anything. If someone could acomplish that we'd could be a powerful force for change.