Contact:
Robert Elder, Communications Director, TRLA | relder@trla.org (512) 374-2764

Hannah Allison, Director of Events and Special Development, TRLA | hallison@trla.org (512) 374-2704

Series of Justice Reform Conversations Starts in Travis County

Sept. 28, 2020

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) hosts Finding the Way Forward, a series of six conversations that will examine justice reform with local leaders in access to justice. 

The kickoff event is Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. via Zoom Webinar with Travis County Attorney-elect Delia Garza, José P. Garza, a former TRLA attorney in Del Rio, and Adeola Ogunkeyede, Travis County’s first Chief Public Defender. 

Patrice James will moderate. She is the Director of Community Justice at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law. 

Panelists will examine how the current environment has created a singular opportunity for diagnosing challenges in our justice system, its impact on indigent clients, and the possibility of change at the state and local levels. 

Local leaders in other parts of the 68-county TRLA service area will hold conversations as follows: 

Oct. 14: Bexar County 

Oct. 28: Coastal counties 

Nov. 18: El Paso County 

Dec. 9: Rio Grande Valley 

TBD: Webb County 

Tickets for each conversation are $25 or $250 for the entire series. Ticket sales support TRLA’s ability to address the significant increase in the need for legal services across Southwest Texas. 

Complimentary access is available to the press. Contact Hannah Allison at hallison@trla.org for a virtual press pass. 

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid provides free legal services to people who cannot afford an attorney in 68 southwestern counties, including the entire Texas-Mexico border. TRLA attorneys specialize in more than 45 areas of the law, including disaster assistance, family, employment, foreclosure, bankruptcy, landlord-tenant, housing, education, immigration, farmworker, and civil rights. Our hotline is open from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (CST) Monday – Friday: (956) 996-8752.