The Driver’s License Recovery Project has been invited to provide in-person services during the Expunction Clinic at Huston-Tillotson University on the Martin Luther King Day of Service. Students will assist individuals with driver’s license holds related to unpaid criminal justice debt. Volunteers will meet with low-income drivers, research the cause(s) of license suspensions, and explain the steps drivers must take to recover their licenses. In most cases, the first step to driver’s license recovery will involve obtaining a fee waiver, fee reduction, or alternative payment plan. In those cases, volunteers will help individuals complete financial affidavits.
Organization
Driver’s License Recovery Project, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The Driver’s License Recovery Project is a student-led internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program dedicated to addressing how driver’s license suspensions contribute to a cycle of incarceration for debt and create significant employment barriers in low-income communities. The Driver’s License Recovery Project is supporting the Court Debt Relief and Driver’s License Recovery Clinic in collaboration with the Texas Fair Defense Project.
Project Details
- Project Date
January 17, 2022
- Project Time
- 11am-5pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 8 hours, including training
- Training
- Asynchronous plus 1 hour in-person at the beginning of the event
- Skills used
- Client communication; records research; document preparation/review
- Project location
- Huston-Tillotson University, Davage-Durden Student Union, 900 Chicon St, Austin, TX 78702
- Address
- 727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 10
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/court-debt-relief-and-drivers-license-recovery-clinic-registration-221512057527