Rather than stigmatizing people who may be unable to pay child support, Connecticut should focus on programs and policies that actually provide resources and support to the young people of this state. For this reason, the child support obligor delinquency list is ineffective and harmful. This Committee should support this effort to abolish it, as does the ACLU-CT.
We strongly encourage the committee to support this bill. Put simply registries of any sort do not work. Registries, first and foremost, serve as an extrajudicial form of punishment, created for the purpose of shaming and ostracizing.
Status
Active
Session
2021
Bill number
SB 854
Position
Support
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