NOTE: This is what CPS looks like when you’re powerless. Clipboard out. Doorstep interrogation. Parents on edge. Kids watching. One phone call, one allegation, and the machine rolls in. No warrant needed. No presumption of innocence. Just compliance or consequences. But swap the last name for a city council title and the clipboard disappears. No knock. No visit. No file. A .252 BAC with a stepchild in the car somehow earns silence instead of scrutiny. CPS isn’t broken. It’s selective. And that’s worse. This piece is “Colorado CPS Ignores DUI Dad,” first published on TheFamilyCourtCircus.com.
By Richard Luthmann
(AURORA, COLORADO) – Child Protective Services loves to kick down doors when parents do nothing wrong. Miss a school email. Question a doctor. Argue with an ex. That’s enough to get your life torn apart by Colorado Child Protective Services and its county partners.
Files get opened. Homes get searched. Kids get interrogated. Careers get wrecked.
But when the parent is powerful, connected, or politically protected, CPS suddenly goes blind. Drunk driving with a child in the car? Triple the legal alcohol limit? An arrest documented line by line by the police?
Silence…