DATE: February 5, 2026
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Seligman: Corporate Bad Actors Should Pay to Fund Real Public Safety in Colorado
DENVER, CO — David Seligman, candidate for Colorado Attorney General, today outlined a central pillar of his public safety agenda: confronting Colorado’s behavioral health crisis by creating a Community Health and Safety Fund, funded by recoveries from enforcement actions brought against the corporate bad actors that are endangering Coloradans.
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“My top priority as attorney general will be to keep our communities safe. Colorado is in a mental health crisis and is underfunding one of our most important tools in combating this safety issue – community. We consistently rank near the bottom nationally for behavioral health outcomes. We have one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, and almost one-quarter of our teenagers have recently experienced a major depressive episode. It’s an abomination, and it’s not inevitable.” Seligman said.
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“This crisis is the product of the deliberate choice to underfund behavioral and mental health treatment and support. Right now, our prisons and jails are the largest providers of behavioral health care in the state. Building more prison beds isn’t going to make anyone safe. But funding behavioral health services that address mental health and substance use needs will,” Seligman explained.
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Seligman emphasized that powerful corporate forces are making the crisis worse while avoiding responsibility, and he explained how he’ll force those actors to pay for expanded services.
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“Big Tech is deliberately designing products to isolate us and manipulate our kids. Big Oil is making our communities sick. And Big Healthcare profits from denying care instead of delivering it.” Seligman said. “These corporate bad actors and more make our communities less safe. They should pay for the harm they’re forcing us to bear.”
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As Attorney General, Seligman will aggressively enforce Colorado law against corporate misconduct that endangers communities and use funds recovered from those cases to invest directly in behavioral health resources that we know keep our communities healthy and safe.
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Building on the success of Colorado’s Opioid Abatement Fund, Seligman will create a Community Health and Safety Fund, capitalized by enforcement recoveries from corporate abuse. The fund will invest in: behavioral health services, substance-use treatment, community-based and preventative care, and expanded access in rural and underserved areas.
“Colorado has already shown this model works,” Seligman said. “When corporations cause harm, accountability can fund the solutions. If we’re serious about community safety, we need to stop underinvesting in care — and make those profiting off harm pay to fix it.”
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David Seligman is one of the country’s leading workers’ rights, consumer rights, and antimonopoly lawyers. He is the Executive Director of Towards Justice, a nationally recognized non-profit legal and labor rights organization based in Denver. He fights for regular people in courts across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He helps working Coloradans and small businesses take on powerful corporations and the Trump Administration—and he’s won. He stands up for nurses, rideshare drivers, meatpackers, Amazon workers, veterans, teachers, federal employees, grocery workers, renters buried in junk fees to the biggest landlords in the country, and working families drowning in medical debt to massive hospital systems. He has returned more than 70 million dollars to working people and forced powerful corporations to play by the rules in Colorado and across the country.
Prior to his work at Towards Justice, David was an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, where he helped consumers buried in debt and forced to give up their rights in the fine print. David lives in east Denver with his wife and three daughters, just a few miles from where he grew up. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and served as the Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review before clerking for appellate and trial level federal judges.
For more information about David Seligman’s campaign, visit https://seligmanforag.com
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