Whenever an obligor is delinquent on child support payments in the amount of One Thousand Dollars ($1000) or more, the Child Support Enforcement Office shall release information pertaining to that obligor, including the size of the delinquency, to any consumer reporting agency which requests such information. When the amount of such a delinquency is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), the Child

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Support Enforcement Office has the option of releasing such information to a consumer reporting agency that requests it.

(a) Before the Child Support Enforcement Office releases this information, it must inform the obligor that it is about to release the information, inform him of the amount of the delinquency and that he has ten (10) days in which to make an appointment with the head of the Child Support Enforcement Office to contest the accuracy of the information about to be released. If no meeting is requested within ten (10) days the Child Support Enforcement Office shall release the information. If a meeting is requested and held, the head of the Child Support Enforcement Office shall state his findings about the accuracy of the information in writing, retain a copy of his findings and send another copy to the absent parent.

(b) Whenever the Child Support Enforcement Office releases this information to a consumer reporting agency, it may charge that agency a fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) for doing so.

(c) As used in this Section, the term consumer reporting agency means any person or business which, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of assembling or evaluating consumer credit information or other information on consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties, and which uses any means or facility of interstate commerce for the purpose of preparing or furnishing consumer reports.

SOURCE: Added P.L. 18-017:26 (Oct. 5, 1985).