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also helped create a Post-Disaster Evictions Bench Card and flowchart and disseminated to
judges and justices of the peace.

Building Bridges Committee
Adrienne Wheeler, Chair
This Committee met in early October to set goals for the next year. Recent accomplishments
include finalizing a brochure on the new law affecting child support obligations for
incarcerated obligors, offering educational training on reentry civil legal aid, and building
relationships between legal service providers and state agencies to better address reentry civil
legal needs. The next meeting is scheduled for February.

Language Access Committee
Luz Molina, Chair
The Language Access Committee met in July and August to prioritize goals that were
identified at the prior meeting, including creating educational materials and trainings,
researching, and modifying La. Code of Evidence Article 604 as required in the Louisiana
Supreme Court’s Language Access Plan, and highlighting the attorney’s ethical duty to provide
adequate interpretation for Limited English Proficient clients. Committee members also helped
with an article for the December/January Bar Journal on what lawyers should know about
Louisiana’s new Language Access Plan.

Modest Means Committee
Virginia Listach, Chair
The Committee met in August and discussed the completion of several resources/activities: the
Limited Scope Representation (LSR) Toolkit for attorneys, the new CLE on LSR for attorneys
who join the Modest Means Directory, and a campaign to increase awareness of these
resources. Judicial education, publication in the LA District Judges Association’s newsletter,
and attorney focus groups were discussed as ways to share the materials and discuss the
challenges attorneys and courts face with regard to limited scope representation, as a way to
increase access to legal services.

Technology Committee
Amanda Brown and Greg Landry, Co-Chairs
On August 26, 2021, the Technology Committee co-hosted a planning summit with the Self-
Represented Litigants Committee to coordinate overlapping projects and initiatives, including
the court forms project. During this summit, members of both Committees voted to approve a
formal process for identifying, automating, and testing court forms. Members of the
Technology Committee are finalizing the automation of the Name Change and 103 Divorce
forms and are working on automating other forms identified in the SRL Committee’s “Top 10”
list of court forms. In coordination with the Disaster Response Subcommittee, this committee
is working toward the implementation of a statewide disaster legal services hotline. In early
October, SLLS was awarded $11,500 from the Capital Area United Way to support this project.
SLLS, ALSC, Lagniappe Law Lab, and the LSBA's Access to Justice Department will staff
the project's implementation. The next meeting is scheduled for November.