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ContraROM: Sunne Wright McPeak
Gary Yancey Costa
,ATE: July 13, 1993 County
UBJECT: Use of CCTV Community Access Programming to Increase Compliance with Court-
Ordered Child Support
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Authorize the use of the CCTV Community Access Channel programming to
increase compliance with court-ordered child support by the broadcast at least
monthly of the names of parents delinquent in their court-ordered child support
payments. Direct Pat Burke, coordinator of the county's cable television activities,
to work with the District Attorney and Supervisor McPeak to develop such an
effort and report back to the Board of Supervisors on the implementation of the
program within the next 60 days.
BACKGROUND:
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors and the District Attorney's Office
are committed to implementing actions which will increase compliance by parents
of court-ordered child support. We have spent much time and effort on this matter
in the past. Now that we have been able to institute the CCTV community access
channel programming in cooperation with the cable television companies, we
should take advantage of this resource to benefit the public at large and .to assist
the delivery of county services. Currently, the CCTV broadcasts for two hours,
7:00 - 9:00 p.m., every Monday evening on all local access channels. It would be
quite possible to monthly begin the broadcast with a brief explanation of what the
county and District Attorney can do to help seek compliance when child support
payments are delinquent followed by a usual listing and reading of parents
currently delinquent (for more than a selected number of months, perhaps three
months or more). This would be relatively easy and inexpensive to produce and
would convey the message about how serious we are in enforcing the law. There
are too many children who go without because parents do not provide adequate
child support. We cannot let this continue without using every tool available to us.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENTS YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON July 13, 1993 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER X _
The Board APPROVED the above recommendations, cautioning the District Attorney to
be very careful that the numbers are accurate and can be substantiated before they
are broadcast.
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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