The national Justice For All project this year granted the state a cash award to develop a plan for providing legal services to every state resident in need.
Audio, News Story (Alaska)
Leila Kheiry
KRBD (Ketchikan, AK)
August 29, 2017
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Tags: Justice for All
Organizations mentioned/involved: Alaska Institute for Justice, Disability Law Center of Alaska, Alaska Legal Services Corporation
Audio, News Story (Alaska)
Leila Kheiry
KRBD (Ketchikan, AK)
August 29, 2017
READ THE FULL STORY HERE
Tags: Justice for All
Organizations mentioned/involved: Alaska Institute for Justice, Disability Law Center of Alaska, Alaska Legal Services Corporation
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When someone is charged with a criminal offense, they are constitutionally guaranteed a lawyer, even if they can’t afford one.
But, ABA President Darrel Gardner said, most people won’t ever be charged with a crime. It’s much more likely they’ll end up in court for a civil matter.
“Child custody issues, divorce issues, housing issues, employment issues, wrongful terminations — the gamut of what people are involved with in their day-to-day lives – and oft times end up in some sort of legal dispute,” he said. “And attorneys are expensive, so there are a lot of individuals out there who simple get inadequate or, as the studies have found, no (legal) assistance.”