Suspended drving license information-MD?

Question

I have been doing research online thru the MD case search history; someone we know has a active traffic violation against them- will give the specifics; need info on how this affects driving, job, etc. worried about the son's wellbeing...

What I'm worried about-- I'm stepmom, me and my husband live a block away-- I'm tired of her playing the poor pity me game-- on the court docket report online it says failure to appear suspension- so I take that to me she now has a suspended license; if i see her driving can i call the police and say i know she driving with a suspended- she and her sister both have this, and i worried what will happen if either are stopped while she has the child in the car with her? Would they call me and my husband to take the son, etc.

Thanks so far for help- I just don't want it to appear we're out to get her (we're always in adn out of court, last there two months ago over custody modification; as a result we moved sixty miles to be one street away from them.

Answer 1

I also live in MD and am married to a police officer. First of all, if she is suspended for failure to appear that means that she was too irresponsible to drag herself into court to face her charges. Doesn't sound like the type of person I would want to have custody of my son!

Yes, they can be arrested for driving with a suspended license. And yes, if your stepson is with one of them, the officer would contact a family member to come get him. It may mean that he gets to ride in a police car and gets to hang out at the department for awhile until your husband or you could get there.

You may want to call your local PD and ask how this situation would be handled in your specific area (just to be prepared). Tell them that you suspect these women are driving on suspended license and that you are concerned about what will happen if they are pulled over or arrested when your stepson is with them.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I don't think it's a matter of "minding ones own business" ... I think it's a matter of "whats good for the goose is good for the gander!"

We all have to comply with the laws that regulate operating a motor vehicle on the roadways. If someone is suspended or revoked...there's a very good reason for it. I don't want myself or family members on the roadways when there's the possibility of endangering them because of someones inability to obey the rules of the road.

Driving a car is a privilege NOT a right!

As far as reporting a suspended driver operating on a roadway...you have to consider the "urgency" of the call. You can call your local police department to inform them of the actions of this suspended driver in hopes they will see the suspended driver operating the vehicle.

I have zero tolerance for those who seem to think letting others break the law is OK when it's not! This is whats wrong with our nation today...we're so busy steering clear of the problems...it's like burying our heads in the sand hoping it won't affect our own lives.

Next time you see someone running from the police...you can imagine the problems just beginning when its YOU they run into while running away at dangerous speeds!

Just my humble opinion!

Answer 4

Well it Seems you over looked more than the seat belt ticket... since you didn't pay it by the date on the ticket, then you obviously over looked the court notice they sent you in the mail to appear in court to either pay the fine or contest the ticket,, after that you obviously also over looked the court notice mailed to you notifying you that your license was suspended..then you obviously over looked the notice from florida DMV .. When your driver's license is suspended the Florida DMV sends notice in the form of a non-forwarding letter to the address listed on your driver's license. An annotation is put on your driving record indicating that such notice was sent. If it is annotated on your record then you are considered to "have knowledge" of the suspension and law enforcement can arrest you or issue you a must appear citation. The Driving While License Suspended (D.W.L.S.) charge is a criminal traffic offense in Florida. If it is your first offense, you now face either a civil or a criminal misdemeanor. The civil charge results when you unknowingly drove with a suspended license,under the civil charge you can receive a fine up to $500. If you knowingly drove while your license was suspended and are found guilty you are facing up to sixty (60) days in jail and a $500 fine. The State has to prove you 'Had Knowledge" about your suspension. That is very easy to do since Florida DMV listed your suspension and notified you at the address on your license.Also it will be easly proven by the documents sent by the Trafic Court to the address on your license..... Becuase you are required by law to notify the DMV in 30 days of any change in address,you where also required to notify the officer at the time you were given the seat belt ticket of any change in address not appearing on your current license.. With all those documents from the state it will be nearly impossible for you to avoid the Criminal Charge of DWLS without an attorney!! Also the Criminal Charge of DWLS will appear on your criminal record as a misdemeanor and will available to anyone doing a criminal background check.. You need to hire an attorney or get a public defender since the criminal charge of DWLS carries jail time you have the right to a jury trial..which is rather costly to the state and most times the attorney can get it reduced to a fine only and the court will set up a payment plan for you to pay the fine.

Answer 5

I live in MD. The most they do is give you a citation which you must contest at court. Now if she were driving with a suspended registration then her car will be towed away. I think you should just mind your business and let people live as they can. Its already too hard for many residents in Md to make ends meet here. Im here by myself and know first hand how tough it is. So just leave them alone. consequences are theirs to answer to..not yours.

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Answer 7

Would you really do that to someone you loved? And by 'loved' I mean really loved?

If you can't say that your concern for her health, welfare, happiness, and safety is not equal to or greater than your concern for your own, then please don't try to persuade me in the falseness of your love for the daughter of your husband who rivals you for your husband's attentions. The part of your 'question' that drives this point home for me is where you say you "just don't want it to appear we're out to get her"

You ARE out to get her, you just don't want it to appear that you are.

What it appears to me is that you're doing is finding a way to remove that particular rival from your own life.. which is exactly what this kind of system and scary people like KC blah blah blah, above me are all about.

Someone driving with an unbenownst-to-them suspended license is NOT a safety issue for your stepgrandson. You can stop pretending that it is any time now.

A failure-to-appear suspension simply means that she didn't appear in court and they want to remind her to appear, but they know that everybody gets way too many postal items from the local government and they don't even try to read most of them, so they don't even try to send this kind of reminder through the mail, but, with the intention of catching her in a moment when she's already got reason to be afraid for her own safety because of a person with a gun standing right outside her car door, and reminding her about it in this way, when the government has her full attention.

That's all a failure-to-appear suspension is for. It has absolutely nothing to do with safety, and every honest law-enforcement officer already knows this, so the most they'll do is write a non-pre-payable ticket, to force the person back into court, where not only that ticket can be addressed, but whatever it was that she failed to appear about.

They won't take her to jail simply for pulling her over for something like a speeding ticket or an unlit tail-light or a failure to signal while changing lanes. So they won't take her son away from her.

And until you learn to love them both, and I mean really love them, I pity the moments that stepgrandson even has to be within the influence of your presence.

BTW, the reason that KC blah blah blah is such a scary participant is that he has become quite the master of doublespeak.. aka, lying.

Check out what he said: "We all have to comply with the laws that regulate operating a motor vehicle on the roadways." Oh so not true. While I was in high school and the closest thing my county had to a Law Enforcement Explorer Scout, the state sent into my town an undercover agent, whose job it was to convince the locals that breaking laws was no big deal, and I mean all sorts of laws, but, first, she demonstrated how she could zip her corvette stingray past cops on the highway, at very high speeds, and that even IF she were pulled over, the cops would never write her any tickets, which they never did, because they would learn while on the radio with dispatch that she was one of them. When she was brand new to my town, she took me along for a ride where that exact thing happened.. before she realized that I wasn't falling for her bait like so many of my friends were doing, and she asked around about me and learned that I was so tight with local law enforcement that she figured that I must have learned what her game was from one of them. I hadn't yet, but she spilled the beans to me anyway. The big purpose of her tour around the state was to fish for drug rings. The secondary purpose was to get people to start breaking laws to then start ticketing them and arresting them, to thereby increase the revenues of the local coffers from the increase in collected fines. I have identified programs exactly like this in each and every state I have ever lived in since then.

So, when scary people like KC try to say things like "We all have to comply with the laws that regulate operating a motor vehicle on the roadways" there is nothing further than the truth that can be spoken.

And this Enufblahblahblah contributor... at least she has the excuse of not actually being in law-enforcement herself. Her lack of accuracy occurs when she says "if she is suspended for failure to appear that means that she was too irresponsible to drag herself into court". I currently have a failure to appear warrant out for me. The notice to appear arrived to me via postal service with an envelope posmarked two full days after the date I was supposed to have appeared in that court. In other words, it occured because of the lack of responsibility on the part of that court.

Since I haven't been back to that state in a very long time, this has not even begun to be an issue, because, even though I know it exists, and even though I know that state has requested that my state suspend my license for me, no other state where I have been driving even begins to care to try to serve that particular warrant upon me.

Quite often, a failure to appear has absolutely nothing to do with the suspended person's responsibility at all. But, it is awfully easy to become bigotted when you've never had something like that happen to you to learn the truth about such matters.

And it's really easy to become bigotted when your intellectual maturity is at the level where you misinterpret the above blurb to mean there to be more than one woman, and the child to be your stepson.

Why don't you simply do the responsible thing as the adult that I assume you to be and simply tell your stepdaughter that you are aware of a warrant out for her arrest for failure to appear to court?