"In an interesting twist to the police being one step ahead of
offenders with outstanding arrest warrants, people are now able to
search online for their own active arrest warrants," indicated Daniel
H. Wannamaker of Wannamaker and Associates, of Austin, Texas, with
offices in Dallas and Houston.

This means if a person thinks they have an outstanding ticket and
wants to deal with it and get it off his or her driving record, they
need to know the status of the ticket. "Finding this out online will
avoid the inevitable arrest if courthouse records are searched
instead," said Wannamaker, "which is good; however, if the records are
not up-to-date, that's a problem."

It is not too difficult to imagine that in the future the general
public will be able to search for even more information than just
online warrants. Even today there are some sites that will allow people
to search for arrests and convictions and other information.

"Information like that floating around on the Internet is a major
concern to attorneys who realize this is a direct violation of a
person's right to privacy, even if they have committed a crime and are
doing or have done time for it," indicated Wannamaker.

"It doesn't take too much of an imagination to see what might happen
if an online site has an outstanding warrant for a particular offense
(say for instance, unpaid traffic tickets) but not the updated fact
that the offender paid the fine two weeks ago," said Wannamaker.

"As with anything dealing with the legal system, everything is
relative to the circumstances of the case and any criminal defense
attorney with extensive experience in this area will tell you a case
may change on the drop of a dime," added Wannamaker.

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