The state of Kentucky has launched a free interface for residents with legal questions.
Kyjustice.org seeks to answer the most common legal questions in addition to providing self-help forms and guides. It also includes a section for volunteering attorneys looking to provide free services.
Legal Aid of the Bluegrass, also known as LABG, funded the project through a 2019 Legal Services Corporation’s Technology Innovation Grant to make the website more user-friendly, including easy-to-use guides and templates. LABG collaborated with the Kentucky legal aid programs and the Kentucky Access to Justice Commission to overhaul kyjustice.org. The system took more than a year to create.
Chief Justice John Minton Jr. announced the new website Wednesday in a press conference.
He said the site is a “central” location for information for housing, debt, public benefit programs, criminal record expungement and family law. The system is jointly managed by Kentucky’s civil legal aid programs and the Kentucky Access to Justice Commission.
Justice Michele Keller, who chairs the Kentucky Access to Justice Commission, said “the justice system can be complex and hard to navigate,” and the website is designed to offer needed information from a reliable source in a way anyone can understand.