Hurricane Katrina: Legal Issues - Columbus School of Law

10.6.4.1 Right to remain silent
10.6.4.2 Right to an attorney
10.6.4.3 Right to a court appointed attorney if you can’t afford one on your own
10.6.5 What Will The Police Officer Do With Your Child Once He Is Arrested?
10.6.6 If Your Child Is Stopped On The Street By The Police Does She Have To Say
Anything?
10.6.7 Should Your Child Talk If The Police Tells Her That They Will Go Easy If She Talks?
10.6.8 Should Your Child Talk To The Police If He Has Not Done Anything Wrong?
10.6.9 Should Your Child Talk To The Police When They Demand A Confession?
10.6.10 Is A Police Officer At School A Police Officer?
10.6.11 General Tips For Dealing With The Police:
10.6.12 If Your Child Is Arrested, What Can You Do To Help?
11 Consumer Issues
11.1 Dealing with Public Officials
11.1.1 What do I need to know about dealing with public officials?
11.2 Charitable Donations
11.2.1 What precautions should I take when considering making a charitable donation?
11.2.2 Where should I lodge a complaint if I believe that an organizations has misrepresented
its charitable intentions or otherwise has operated improperly?
11.3 Phone and Internet Scams
11.3.1 How can I protect myself against phone-scams?
11.3.2 What about internet scams?
11.4 Home, Car and Other Repairs
11.4.1 If I need to have repairs done to my home, what steps can I take to protect myself
against scams and what steps should I take with regard to obtaining a fair price and ensuring
that the job is done with sufficient quality and what types of illegal and unscrupulous practices
should I be on the lookout for?
11.4.2 How can I protect against auto repair scams?
11.5 Identity Theft
11.5.1 How can I minimize my chances for becoming a victim to identity theft when I am
most vulnerable?
11.5.2 If I realize that my identity has been stolen, how do I respond?
11.6 Hurricane Katrina and Current/Future Credit Card Debt
11.6.1 How are victims of Hurricane Katrina identified and classified by banks, credit card
companies, and other financial institutions?
11.6.2 Have there been an increase in Credit Card scams or fraud as a result of Hurricane
Katrina?
11.7 Credit Card Company Contact Information
11.7.1 What are credit card companies and banks doing to help alleviate the current and future
debts of their clients?
11.7.2 AMERICAN EXPRESS
11.7.3 CAPITAL ONE
11.7.4 CITI GROUP
11.7.5 DISCOVER
11.7.6 MASTERCARD
11.7.7 VISA – USA
12 Banking Issues
12.1 What do I need to do if my bank was destroyed?
12.2 How should I go about banking at a place of relocation?
12.3 What if I have lost my identification and/or banking information?
12.4 Will my deposits and/or drafts still be functioning normally? What if I am not able to pay
them?
12.5 What happens if I had property in a safety deposit box at my bank? Will insurance cover it?