If someone who is 18 and over gets injured and goes to the hospital, would their parents still get notified or no?

  • brunchyvirus@fedia.io
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    13 hours ago

    I’m not sure if you know the answer but since you work in 911 dispatch, how does it work if a person is a suspect in a crime or something? I assume if they would notify your parents/immediate family?

    • Fondots@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      It is a bit outside of my area of expertise, but if I understand what you’re asking, the police usually aren’t going to just call up your family and say “hey, your adult child just did a crime and we thought you should know”

      Unless there’s a good reason for them to do that. If they suspect that you may be a danger to your family, they’ll of course advise them and give them some more details.

      Or if they’re trying to locate you, they’ll probably contact your family, but usually they’re going to keep details vague, they probably won’t come right out and say “we think your kid just robbed a gas station o do you know where he is so we can arrest him?” They’ll probably keep it to something more like “he may have been present during a robbery and we have some questions for him”

      But of course every situation, police department, individual officer, etc. is unique, so I won’t claim that there’s absolutely no situation where that might happen.

    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      They absolutely would not notify your close loved ones if you are suspected of a crime. That would be the same as them telling you to get out of town before they find you