The Montgomery County Child Support Agency utilizes many resources when attempting to locate a Non-Custodial or Putative Parent or any income/assets of those individuals. The SETS (Support Enforcement Tracking System) automatically initiates location through many resources and provides for tracking of location efforts. The automated location begins once a party's address becomes invalid and will continue until an address has been found. The SETS system will accept any incoming income information regarding a person even when an address is valid. In addition to the automated location efforts, the CSEA will utilize any other resources available such as the Internet, Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Prison Locator. The SETS system separates the Location Process into three types: Local Locate - This is a manual locate tracking system that allows the CSEA worker to track all locate efforts that have been worker initiated. The custodial parent is usually the best source of information when attempting to locate a non-custodial parent. Some of the other sources that a worker may utilize can include:
Central Paternity Registry (CPR)      Current or Last Known Employer      Financial Institutions      Court Records      Internet Locate Sites	Other Relatives U.S. Postal Service Utility Companies Telephone Books Prison Locator
State Locate - Once a non-custodial parent address is invalidated in SETS the automated location process begins. Requests will automatically be made to State Location sources, through data exchange, every 7 and 30 days until location of the non-custodial parent is found.      State Location Sources include:
Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) - every 30 days State Wage and Information Collection Agency which includes Unemployment Compensation and Workers Compensation - every 7 days Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics which includes Death Registry, Birth Registry and Paternity Registry - at 30 days Department of Corrections which includes Dept of Youth Services, Highway Patrol (offenders database) and SSA incarceration data - at 30 days
Federal Locate - SETS cases are submitted to the federal locate sources every 60 days until information is returned. Federal Location Sources include:
Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) which includes Social Security Administration (SSA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Department of Defense (DOD),Veterans Administration (VA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - every 60 days National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) which includes W-4, Quarterly Wage and Unemployment Insurance - every 60 days Federal Case Registry - every 60 days
For most location searches to be successful it is necessary to have as much identifying information on a non-custodial parent as possible. The most important piece of information is the persons Social Security Number. For some federal sources the social security number is mandatory for the search to take place. If no locate information is returned from all automated and manual locate requests the case may meet closure criteria. A case may be closed when an non-custodial parent, whose social security number is known, is unlocatable for a period of three years. A case may be closed when an non-custodial parent is unlocatable for a period of one year if there is insufficient information to run an automated search.