(1)The executive director or
district attorneys may request and receive from departments, boards, bureaus, or
other agencies of the state or any of its political subdivisions, and the same are
required to provide, such assistance and data as will enable the department and
county departments properly to carry out their powers and duties to locate and
prosecute any person who fraudulently obtains child care assistance pursuant to
this part 1. Any records established pursuant to the provisions of this section are
available only to the department, the county departments, the attorney general,
and the district attorneys, county attorneys, and courts having jurisdiction in fraud
or recovery proceedings or actions.
(2)All departments and agencies of the state and local governments sha
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(1) The executive director or
district attorneys may request and receive from departments, boards, bureaus, or
other agencies of the state or any of its political subdivisions, and the same are
required to provide, such assistance and data as will enable the department and
county departments properly to carry out their powers and duties to locate and
prosecute any person who fraudulently obtains child care assistance pursuant to
this part 1. Any records established pursuant to the provisions of this section are
available only to the department, the county departments, the attorney general,
and the district attorneys, county attorneys, and courts having jurisdiction in fraud
or recovery proceedings or actions.
(2) All departments and agencies of the state and local governments shall
cooperate in the location and prosecution of a person who fraudulently obtains
child care assistance pursuant to this part 1, and, on request of the county or
district board of human or social services, the county director, the department, or
the district attorney of any judicial district in this state, shall supply all information
on hand relative to the location, employment, income, and property of said persons,
notwithstanding any other provision of law making the information confidential,
except the laws pertaining to confidentiality of tax returns filed pursuant to law
with the department of revenue. The department of revenue shall furnish at no cost
to inquiring departments and agencies such information as may be necessary to
effectuate the purposes of this part 1. The executive director shall, by rule,
establish the procedures whereby this information is requested and provided. The
department or county departments shall use such information only for the purposes
of administering the Colorado child care assistance program pursuant to this part 1,
and a district attorney shall use it only for the prosecution of persons who
fraudulently obtain child care assistance pursuant to this part 1, and shall not use
the information, or disclose it, for any other purpose.
(3) A district attorney shall bill the actual costs and expenses incurred by
the district attorney's office in carrying out the provisions of subsection (2) of this
section to counties or a county within the judicial district in the proportions
specified in section 20-1-302. Each county shall make an annual accounting to the
department on all amounts recovered.