Warrant / CSEA Service
The Warrant / CSEA Service unit consists of 5 Deputies and one Clerical Specialist. The unit’s primary responsibility is to locate and apprehend subjects who are wanted and have active warrants on file with the sheriff’s office.
One of the deputies puts in many long hours researching different databases for information to assist in tracking and locating these wanted subjects so that they can be arrested and taken to court for their outstanding warrant.
The unit also specializes in Child Support Enforcement and works closely with the Butler County Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA). As part of their daily duties they serve subpoenas and summons for CSEA. These deputies must also assist all other units of the sheriff’s office when necessary for transports, road patrol, jail, investigations, civil, etc. Several of these deputies focus largely on locating and apprehending subjects who are wanted by the courts for failure to appear for child support hearings or who fail to pay their child support.
The Warrants Unit consists of six deputies and one clerk. The unit received 7,071 warrants and served 6,074 in 2015. At year end, there were 6,395 active warrants. The unit is responsible for a quarterly Most Wanted poster and also does a weekly Most Wanted that goes to the Sheriff’s Office website and social media followers. The unit has received nu-merous tips throughout the year that have resulted in multiple arrests.
Due to high number of the child support warrants, they cannot be entered into the LEADS (Law Enforcement Automated Data System) database and can only be entered in the Sheriff’s RMS (Records Management System) so that they can be accounted for and maintained. All other warrants are entered into the RMS System and LEADS System. Felony warrants also get entered into the NCIC (National Crime Information Center) system.
The Clerical Specialist is responsible for entering these warrants that are received by the Sheriff’s Office into the RMS System on a daily basis as well as returning the appropriate portion of the warrants back to each court so that the courts know that the subject has been arrested and an arraignment date can be set. The Clerical Specialist assists the general public, attorneys, bonding company representatives, and other law enforcement agencies in answering questions and inquiries pertaining to outstanding warrants. The Clerical Specialist also receives many phone calls with helpful tips on locating subjects who are wanted, whether it is for a child support warrant or one of the other many felony or misdemeanor warrants on file. These tips are passed along to the warrant deputies to help aide them in the apprehension of wanted individuals.
One of the five deputies is responsible for the Fugitive Extraditions and Rule 4 hearings that must be done in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Ohio Revised Code. This deputy’s main responsibility is to coordinate between the different law enforcement agencies, and assist with the apprehension and return of wanted individuals back to Ohio. All of the deputies in this unit may at times have to schedule long trips to transport subjects that have been arrested on our warrants back to Butler County Ohio from various states.