ON THE CUTTING EDGE: Mug Shots Of Deadbeat Dads On Pizza Boxes
One day when Cynthia Brown was ordering pizza, “It suddenly dawned on me that most people running from the law don't eat out, they order pizza." Brown, who is executive director of the Butler County Child Enforcement Agency, has recruited three pizzerias to tape wanted posters of child support deadbeats to pizza boxes. Twice a year Butler County also prints posters with mug shots of the 10 most-wanted parents chosen by prosecutors and hangs them up in post offices and other government buildings. The Associated Press reports:
The Butler County sheriff's office served 1,224 nonsupport warrants last year, said sheriff's Sgt. Todd Langmeyer. …
Since the first pizza posters appeared in August, they have led to one arrest, Langmeyer said. "It's a good idea any time you can put the faces out there," he said
State child support agencies collected more than $23 billion in child support for 17.2 million children in 2005, but the cumulative past-due child support since the agencies were first formed more than 30 years ago is $106 billion, said [spokeswoman for the National Child Support Enforcement Association, Kay] Cullen.
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