About this report
This plan guided the Commission's work from 2023 to 2025. It describes the barriers that deny equal access to justice, including economic, language, geographic, and immigration status barriers, and two related problems: the “Service Gap,” when there aren't enough resources to help Californians who can't pay for legal help, and the “Knowledge Gap,” when people don't know their problems have legal solutions. It sets priorities in four areas:
Access to the Courts: access to the record, e-justice, court Self-Help Centers, and the Language Access Plan.
Access to Lawyers: Infrastructure & Innovation Grants, loan repayment assistance, adequate legal aid funding, and a California Legal Aid Roundtable.
Access to Other Forms of Help: expanding county law libraries' capacity to help unrepresented people.
Narrowing the Knowledge Gap: a social media project on people's legal rights to healthcare access.
Strategic Plans · PDF, 20 pages