{"id":300,"date":"2006-11-16T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T20:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/16\/getting-local-politicians-to-back-self-"},"modified":"2006-11-16T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T20:18:13","slug":"getting-local-politicians-to-back-self-help-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/16\/getting-local-politicians-to-back-self-help-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"getting local politicians to back self-help centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metnews.com\/\">Metropolitan News-Enterprise<\/a><\/em> (Los Angeles, CA) reports that a new Self-Help Law Access Center recently opened in the Santa Monica Courthouse of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. \u00a0(&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metnews.com\/articles\/2006\/samo111606.htm\">Lefkowitz Praises New Facilities in Santa Monica Courthouse<\/a>,&#8221; Nov. 16, 2006)\u00a0 It&#8217;s great that a sixth Self-Help Center has opened in LA County, allowing &#8220;court customers to receive information about legal forms, court appearances and courtroom procedures from attorney-supervised paralegals and trained volunteer,&#8221;\u00a0and supplementing extensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasuperiorcourt.org\/\">online self-help resources<\/a>.\u00a0 And, it&#8217;s nice to read that West District Supervising Judge Linda Lefkowitz is proud of the new facility, which is funded by the LA County Department of Consumer Affairs<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"50\" alt=\"politician\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/11\/politician.gif\" width=\"50\" \/>\u00a0 But, what is <em>especially<\/em> heartening is seeing that it was the efforts of <a href=\"http:\/\/zev.co.la.ca.us\/\">Zev Yaroslavsky<\/a>, an LA County Supervisor that &#8220;led to board approval of the facility&#8217;s funding.&#8221;\u00a0 When local politicians are smart enough to see the need for courthouse\u00a0centers to help the unrepresented litigant, and when they are savvy enough to know that such support can have political advantages, we should see much more being done around the country to give the public the kind of\u00a0accessible court system that they deserve.\u00a0 Consumers and their advocates need to take this message to their legislators.\u00a0 It is a win-win issue for the public and political leaders who join the cause. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, CA) reports that a new Self-Help Law Access Center recently opened in the Santa Monica Courthouse of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. \u00a0(&#8220;Lefkowitz Praises New Facilities in Santa Monica Courthouse,&#8221; Nov. 16, 2006)\u00a0 It&#8217;s great that a sixth Self-Help Center has opened in LA County, allowing &#8220;court customers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}