Kentuckians now have entry to a free, new, and improved authorized useful resource that gives solutions to widespread authorized questions, self-help kinds, guides, and different instruments to resolve life’s vital authorized issues.
Chief Justice John Minton
Kentucky’s civil authorized help packages and the Kentucky Entry to Justice Fee are proud to launch kyjustice.org. The web site supplies data in plain language to assist people and households with authorized points involving housing, debt, public advantages, prison document expungement, household regulation, and extra.
At a press convention Wednesday, Chief Justice John Minton, Jr. formally introduced the launch of kyjustice.org including, “The purpose of kyjustice.org is to offer a central depository of free authorized assist for people searching for authorized assist. The web site, which is collectively managed by Kentucky’s civil authorized help packages and the Kentucky Entry to Justice Fee, supplies useful sources, together with high-quality authorized data, self-help kinds, a device that screens for authorized help eligibility, and an interactive county useful resource map.”
Justice Michele Keller, who chairs the Kentucky Entry to Justice Fee, additionally shared that “the justice system could be advanced and laborious to navigate. One of many objectives of this web site is to make authorized data simply accessible and comprehensible. The content material is managed by the Fee. The Fee’s purpose is to offer entry to justice to our residents no matter their financial circumstances.”
Michele Keller
The web site, which has taken over a 12 months to construct, contains many new options to make discovering authorized assist simple. The web site additionally features a volunteer part for attorneys trying to present free providers and a piece for the newest information and details about modifications in Kentucky regulation.
“This nice new device connects authorized specialists, Kentucky courts, volunteer attorneys and folks throughout the Commonwealth. It’s a shining instance of how we are able to unite to higher serve Kentuckians,” mentioned Rep. Ed Massey, Chair of the Home Judiciary Committee.
Roughly 400,000 Kentuckians go to the positioning every year. Many guests to the web site are people who find themselves representing themselves in court docket. These self-represented litigants could lack a crucial understanding of the regulation and make errors alongside the way in which main them to a lack of housing, revenue, security, or household. The instruments provided by kyjustice.org take away authorized boundaries for many who could not financially qualify for authorized help help and in any other case wouldn’t have entry to high-quality authorized data.
“We all know it may be troublesome for to ask for assist. The stigma to hunt help have to be eliminated,” mentioned Justice and Public Security Cupboard Deputy Secretary Keith Jackson. “Kyjustice.org is a good useful resource to assist Kentucky take important steps in the appropriate route.”
Authorized Assist of the Bluegrass (LABG) acquired funding for this mission by means of a 2019 Authorized Companies Company’s (LSC) Know-how Innovation Grant (TIG) to make the web site extra user-friendly, together with easy-to-use guides and templates. LABG collaborated with the Kentucky authorized help packages and the Kentucky Entry to Justice Fee to overtake kyjustice.org.
Joshua Crabtree, Government Director of Authorized Assist of the Bluegrass, expressed gratitude for the companions who helped make the web site successful.
“Offering correct prime quality authorized data took great collaboration from many companions. These partnerships will proceed into the longer term so we are able to be certain that kyjustice.org stays a premiere useful resource for Kentucky households. Thanks to the Authorized Assist Community of Kentucky, LSC, Chief Justice John D. Minton, Jr., Justice Keller and the Kentucky Entry to Justice Fee and the numerous companions who helped us on this endeavor.”
The Authorized Assist Community of Kentucky supplies free civil authorized assist to low-income and susceptible Kentuckians. The Authorized Assist Community of Kentucky is comprised of Authorized Assist of the Bluegrass, Kentucky Authorized Assist, AppalRed Authorized Assist, Authorized Assist Society, and the Kentucky Entry to Justice Fee.
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