Volunteers 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
Saturday, March 7
- Project Time
- 10:30am-3pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 5.5 hours, including training
- Training
- Wednesday, February 26, 5:30pm-6:30pm (TNH 2.139) OR Thursday, March 5, 5:30pm-6:30pm (TNH 2.123); training is optional for students who volunteered at a driver’s license recovery clinic in the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school years
- Skills used
- Client communication; records research; document preparation/review
- Project location
- First United Methodist Church Bastrop, 1208 Water Street, Bastrop, TX
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 30
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Register at https://dlrecovery5sp20.eventbrite.com