Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Colorado

Re: Harassment

If you can prove the defamation, probably the best you can hope for is a personal protection order and a suit for damages. Consult a local attorney.

Re: Harassment

The law draws the line at the truth, and at whether the lies being told have caused you actual (usually economic) damage. If the lies are that you have committed serious crimes, or have a character trait incompatible with your profession (kleptomaniacal bank teller, for example), or that you have some godawful incurable communicative disease, damages are presumed.

But you have several obstacles to overcome before you can do anything within the law. First you have to prove that the person who called the radio station is the same person who phones in explicative names, whatever that means.

Then you have to prove that whatever in the world she is saying is untrue. If it is untrue, you have to prove that it has actually discredited or harmed your reputation such that you've suffered economic loss. For example, if she's telling everybody you robbed Peter to pay Paul when you actually robbed Paul to pay Peter, or that you're a lousy stinking thief when you're actually a very good thief, any damage to your reputation will be questioned in most courts.

You might call the public radio station and ask why they put this fruitcake on the air at all, and rattle a legal saber ever so gently in their direction as you ask them to stop being a pawn in a custody fight.

Good luck.