Getting police reports

Happy Momma - you posted "BINGO" to the post above that you were looking to see if dad was a threat to your children... what are we missing? Or were you just playing bingo and thought to post it here on this forum with a cut and paste of the text about dad potentially being a threat to boot?

We have to make assumptions when the poster won't answer questions. So here it is again: What do you want the police reports for? Why do you want them?

Note: if I want a donut, I go to the donut shop...if I want to see someone's criminal past I might request their criminal records... so I feel pretty safe in making my assumptions that you want his criminal past. And again, I point out that if anyone else was concerned with his criminal past they'd have ventured down that road already... the fact that CAS hasn't is tell tale.
 
stripes said:
A lot of jumping to conclusions here. The request for police reports may be to figure out whether the person in question poses a danger to the children - someone who has a criminal history involving violence is more of a concern than someone who does not. It sounds like the person in question has an unstable lifestyle (evictions, sporadic homelessness), so perhaps the OP is trying it get a clearer idea of how irregular his life really is. The OP may be not worried about immediate danger to the children - which would be a CAS matter - but may still want to know more about what is going on with the father.

I don't know if any of my speculation is correct either, because all we have to go on is a few words on a screen here.
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I think this is what the BINGO comment was about.
 
HappyMomma said:
My purpose does not need to be known to answer my question.
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You're right, it doesn't.

Technically.

You get the most bang for your buck on this site when you supply context, and open your mind up to some of the blunt stuff that follows.

Long and Winding vs. Straight and Narrow, and what-not.
 
I really don't think that OP has to explain why she wants the police reports. Obviously she has something on her mind that she wants to see if the police reports can help her.

With the freedon of info, you will have to give specific dates for the search in addition to the other parties info. There will be a part where you will give phone number for other party and unless they consent to have their info released, the police report that you will receive will have all the parts of any statements that the other party made , blacked out. I personally believe that the police doesn't even contact the other party for consent anyways.

Anyways, the report will contain information on what you said and what the outcome of the report was. For example if the police felt that ex was lying then it might just say that in the officers opinion blank was being untruthful.

Its not very expensive to get the reports how ever if this goes to trial you cannot just simply use the police reports but will have to call the authorof the report as a witness.

Another way to get the full report without any blacked out parts is if an OCL is involved and you bring up these reports for whatever purpose you want them in the knowledge of the OCL( example safety concerns , past abuse, allegations etc), then the OCL will have to get a copy of the full report for himself in order to prepare his own report for court. You can then ask for a copy of your whole OCL assessment, reports and alllll notes ( even hand written) in writing and pay a fee for that, and BINGO you have a full report in your hands without any blacked out parts

Hope this helps and good luck.
 
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