Editing Arrest warrant (section)

===Outstanding arrest warrant===
An arrest warrant is an "outstanding arrest warrant" when the person named in the warrant has not yet been arrested. A warrant may be outstanding if the person named in the warrant is [[fugitive|intentionally evading law enforcement]], unaware that there is a warrant out for their arrest, the agency responsible for executing the warrant has a backlog of warrants to serve, or a combination of these factors.

Some jurisdictions have a very high number of outstanding warrants. The vast majority in American jurisdictions are for traffic related (non-violent) citations. The state of [[California]] in 1999 had around 2.5 million outstanding warrants, with nearly 1 million of them in the [[Los Angeles]] area.<ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/06/22/MN09FRO.DTL&type=chart When Justice Goes Unserved / Thousands wanted on outstanding warrants – but law enforcement largely ignores them]. Sfgate.com (22 June 1999). Retrieved on 2011-05-29.</ref> The city of [[Baltimore|Baltimore, Maryland]] had 100,000 as of 2007.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-xpm-2011-01-19-bs-md-prince-georges-homicides-20110119-story.html|title=Prince George's police close 4 of year's 12 homicides|author=Matt Zapotosky, ''The Washington Post''|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref> [[New Orleans|New Orleans, Louisiana]] had 49,000 in 1996.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081014135720/http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2003-12-09/cover_story2.html Countless Fugitives], Gambit Communications, Inc., 12 September 2003</ref> The state of [[Texas]] in 2009 had at least 1.7 million outstanding warrants in the Houston area alone.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1.7 million warrants out in Houston area |url=https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/1-7-million-warrants-out-in-Houston-area-1736210.php |access-date=2022-07-30 |website=chron.com|date=9 August 2009 }}</ref>

Some jurisdictions have laws placing various restrictions on persons with outstanding warrants, such as prohibiting renewal of one's [[driver's license]]<ref>See, e.g., {{cite web |title=Texas Driver License and ID Cards Online Services Eligibility |url=https://txapps.texas.gov/tolapp/txdl/eligibility.dl |website=Texas Department of Public Safety |publisher=State of Texas |access-date=18 January 2023}}</ref> or obtaining a [[passport]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ehrlich |first1=Thomas |title=Passports |journal=Stanford Law Review |date=1966 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=129–149 |doi=10.2307/1227050 |jstor=1227050 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kassem |first1=Ramzi |title=Passport Revocation as Proxy Denaturalization: Examining the Yemen Cases |journal=Fordham Law Review |date=2013 |volume=82 |page=2099}}</ref>