“What’s that all about?”
Supposedly, as the story goes, the agency has the right at any time to determine if a citizen is behind in child support or owes the state money. Since it was announced that Joe was a single parent with a son, they did a ‘routine’ check on him.
That is their excuse; we’ll see if it flies.
You’re right. The problem here is that she is not in the same county and therefore should not have anything to do with this.
"...and leak the information to the press, if the citizen is a Republican or if he has confronted a Democrat with the truth."