Section 26.5-4-117 - Locating violators - recoveries(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.Added by 2022 Ch. 123,§3, eff. 7/1/2022.