Legal Aid Position of the League of Women Voters of California

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LEGAL AID

POSITION IN BRIEF: Support measures which will enable the judicial system of the state to provide for all citizens adequate access to legal services.

POSITION

--Begin vertical--
Support adequately funded government supported legal assistance programs which provide legal aid to those unable to pay.
--End vertical--

Adopted 1971; Revised 1983; Readopted at last convention

WHAT IS A VERTICAL POSITION? A vertical position is a position arrived at through a national, state or ILO study which has been approved for use at lower levels of League without prior permission. If a local League wants to use a position locally which is not vertical, the local League should first contact a member of the LWVC board of directors. Vertical positions are indicated by "Begin Vertical-End Vertical" notation.

The League is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization of women and men
which never supports or opposes candidates or political parties.