DMV In Connecticut Won’t Give Info to Marshals Anymore

Sucks to be them.

Up until last month, state marshals made heavy use of a small room in the Department of Motor Vehicles in Wethersfield when they phoned the Law Enforcement Communications office for people’s last known addresses.

Marshals, and the lawyers they serve papers for, needed to have fresh addresses to make legal service on defendants in civil cases, and to properly execute domestic restraining orders.

But in an Oct. 2 letter to the State Marshal Commission in Hartford, DMV Commissioner Robert M. Ward announced that his agency “will no longer be providing telephone access to the State Marshals for department information.”

The letter stated that marshals would have to send in a written form and a $20 fee to check defendants’ last known addresses. Ward suggested that marshals obtain addresses through commercial Internet databases “such as Choice Point and R.L. Polk services.”

Source: Connecticut Law Tribune: Lawyers May Find It Harder To Serve Papers