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> In that case, there may be no benefit to you to cooperating.

There's never any benefit to you in cooperating. You do the absolute minimum you are compelled by law to do, and do nothing further.

I encourage you to read James Duane's book. You are the target audience.

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In this case, failing to cooperate would almost certainly have led to him being detained as a potential runaway, and returned to his parents, or if he refused to provide any information at all, taken to the police station and turned over to Child Protective Services. In this particular scenario, it seems that cooperating was the best approach.

By all means enforce your rights, but make sure you know your opponents rights too, and choose your battles carefully.

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