Students will assist individuals with driver’s license holds related to unpaid criminal justice debt. Volunteers will meet with low-income drivers over Zoom, research the cause(s) of license suspensions, draft letters to courts requesting waiver of court debt, and explain the steps drivers must take to recover their licenses. Volunteers will interact with applicants live over Zoom, hear their stories, and assist in the next steps to driver’s license recovery.
Organization
Driver's License Recovery Project
The Driver’s License Recovery Project is 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 a collaboration between the Mithoff Program and the Texas Fair Defense Project.
Project Details
- Project Date
Tuesday, March 30
- Project Time
- 4pm-7pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 5 hours, including training
- Training
- TBD based on student volunteer availability (30 minutes live, 30 minutes asynchronous); students who have participated in another driver’s license clinic during the 2020-21 academic year do not need to attend training
- Skills used
- Client communication; records research; document preparation/review
- Project location
- Virtual
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 8
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Register at https://dlrecoverysp21.eventbrite.com