Finding Real Deadbeats Should Be Goal

* In “Another Blow” (April 10), you report that the Orange County district attorney filed a lawsuit demanding child support from a woman who has cancer and placed her daughter in foster care because she can no longer care for her child. In a callous remark, Deputy Dist. Atty. Jan Sturla says “That’s the law.”

What Sturla doesn’t say is that his office is paid by Uncle Sam for each “deadbeat” who is served papers, regardless of the likelihood of recovering any money owed. Rather than going through the motions and collecting nothing from those who obviously have no money, the Coalition of Parent Support wants Sturla to spend his resources tracking down the real deadbeats.

SUSAN ZIEROLF

Director, Coalition of Parent Support

Mission Viejo

* I am writing in regards to the county lawsuit against Kim Polaski.

Let me see if I have this straight: The county wants more of our money? So it can do what? File fruitless lawsuit against a poverty-stricken, homeless mother, who is suffering from possibly fatal cancer? Does the phrase “mindless bureaucrat” come to one’s thoughts?

BILL BENNETT

Newport Beach