DeKalb County recently approved a contract between the state and the county district attorney, to provide funding for the county to enforce child-support petitions on behalf of parents in the county.

The county will spend $178,000 to get $1 million in federal money and $348,000 from the state for the program. The $1.5 million program covers a year’s cost for 21 employees to enforce and process child-support petitions.