Editing Failure to appear (section)

=== Warrant backlogs ===
Some scholars contend that FTAs have led to warrant backlogs nationwide.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gouldin |first=Lauryn P. |date=2018 |title=Defining Flight Risk |url=https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/lawreview.uchicago.edu/files/02%20Gouldin_ART_SA%20%28JPM%29.pdf |journal=University of Chicago Law Review |volume=85 |pages=690}}</ref> In 2019, around one in seven adults had warrants out for their arrest in New Orleans, Louisiana;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Webster |first=Richard A. |date=September 20, 2019 |title=One in 7 Adults in New Orleans Have a Warrant Out for Their Arrest, New Data Shows |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/one-in-7-adults-in-new-orleans-have-a-warrant-out-for-their-arrest-new-data-shows/2019/09/20/db85a5c8-da3d-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html |access-date=}}</ref> FTAs were responsible for over half of warrants issued in New Orleans in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ÓFaoláin |first=Sian Miranda Sing |date=September 2019 |title=NOLA Shakedown: How Criminalizing Municipal Fines & Fees Traps Poor & Working Class Black New Orleanians in Poverty |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d2ca7adab33e90001930ffd/t/5d8aed38def8834a610ffd83/1569385834213/NOLA-Shakedown-Report-FINAL-Single-Page.pdf }}</ref> A Department of Justice investigation of the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, found that a municipal court had generated thousands of FTA warrants and used them to impose fines and fees on residents.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 4, 2015 |title=Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department |url=https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf |website=Department of Justice}}</ref> Individuals with warrants out of their arrest may be less likely to seek educational and employment opportunities for fear of getting apprehended.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Gouldin |first=Lauryn P. |date=2018 |title=Defining Flight Risk |url=https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/lawreview.uchicago.edu/files/02%20Gouldin_ART_SA%20%28JPM%29.pdf |journal=University of Chicago Law Review |volume=85 |pages=694}}</ref> They may have their driver's license revoked and cannot access public benefits.<ref name=":4" /> Several jurisdictions have taken steps to clear FTA warrants to reduce these backlogs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Dea |first=Colleen |date=January 22, 2019 |title=NJ Supreme Court Dismisses Massive Backlog of Municipal Cases and Warrants |url=https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2019/01/19-01-21-nj-supreme-court-dismisses-massive-backlog-of-municipal-cases-and-warrants/ |website=NJ Spotlight News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 27, 2020 |title=Easing the Burden of Fees and Fines During Covid-19: Brennan Center for Justice |url=https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/easing-burden-fees-and-fines-during-covid-19 |access-date= |website=Brennan Center for Justice |language=en}}</ref>