Colorado Enemies
The Mile High state's Child Support Enforcement Division is part of its Department of Human Services. The Counties page for the CSED lists some local county agencies. Some of these links are dead, you get Error 404 or "This page not found." The links that are not dead are as follows:
Arapahoe County Department of Human Services. As of January 3, 2003, the Child Support link on this page is dead.
Boulder County Department of Social Services
Denver County Department of Human Services lists a link to its Child Support Enforcement Division
El Paso County Department of Human Services. Its Self Sufficiency page declares that the Child Support Enforcement program is operated by an outfit called Child Support Services of Colorado. The whopper told on these sites is that many families become self sufficient when they get their child support. What about the families of those from whom the child support money is taken? Take enough money, nobody is self sufficient. Since when is dependence upon another person making such payments self sufficient? Kind of like saying that imprisonment for child support is not imprisonment for debt or destroying a village to save it. And you thought calling the MX missile "Peacekeeper" was a crazy play on the meaning of words!
Larimer County Department of Human Services lists a link to its Child Support Program
Logan County Department of Social Services lists a link to its Child Support Enforcement page.
Mesa County Department of Human Services lists a link to its Child Support Division page. While this page lists a number of enforcement methods, it does not list contempt proceedings. It lists a job program for noncustodial parents. As I say on the other pages of this website, as long as its voluntary, cool. Involuntary and we have a Peonage Law violation, a felony defined by 18 U.S.C. §1581. The contempt proceedings are listed on this page, along with other denials of rights and privileges designed to coerce employment and to punish unemployment in liquidation of this debt or obligation. Please see 42 U.S.C. §1994 for the statutory declaration that such use of state law is null and void.
Moffat County Department of Social Services
San Miguel County Department of Social Services declares that its child support program is contracted out to the Delta County Child Support Office which apparently does not have a web page at this time.
Weld County Social Services Division lists child support enforcement as one of its duties.
In Colorado, the County Attorneys are appointed and provide legal advice to county council members and to county agencies. The District Attorneys are elected and their constituencies are based on the judicial districts. A judicial district may include several counties. Neither County nor District Attorneys seem to list child support enforcement or contempt prosecution as part of their duties on their web pages. This is part of a pattern we are seeing in many of our western states: why take credit for an unpopular task if someone else is ready to carry that water. Or shall we say, cross.
This child support system as it presently exists is getting to look like the Metric System in popularity: All the "right thinking" people are for it, but everybody else is either skeptical or downright hostile to the idea.
Article II Section 3 of the Colorado Constitution declares inalienable rights, including the right to acquire, possess, and protect property.
Article II Section 12 of the Colorado Constitution prohibits imprisonment for debt except for refusal to deliver up estate or in cases of strong presumption of fraud. I guess child support is a fraud.
Article II Section 13 of the Colorado Constitution provides for the right of each person to keep and bear arms in defense of self, home, property, and in aid of civil power, except for the carrying of concealed weapons.
Article II Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution prohibits excessive fines and bails and cruel and unusual punishments.
Article II Section 25 of the Colorado Constitution is the state Due Process Clause.
Article II Section 26 of the Colorado Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude.
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