Food Stamp ACLs and ACINs updated
For those following all things Food Stamps, the list of select 2003 All County Letters (ACLs) and 2003 All County Information Notices (ACINs) that are Food Stamp specific has been updated and is current as of today. The updates include…
LSNC luminaries writ large
The last two issues of Clearinghouse Review, the national journal of poverty law published by the National Center on Poverty Law, feature articles by several LSNC staffers and board members. You need a password to access the full articles online,…
P&A publishes self-help sheets in 10+ languages
With funding from a California Bar Equal Access grant, Protection and Advocacy, Inc. has announced online publication of many of its legal self-help street sheets in multiple languages, available for download in PDF. A full list is available where you…
Public records and forbidden facts
It has long been received wisdom that the shift by state and federal courts away from hard-copy documents toward soft-copy electronic filings inexorably leaves the poor behind. That’s a given, the basic problem of assuring fairness of and access to…
Auto-reply e-mail: don’t go there!
Even though it sounds like a great idea in the abstract, it is widely viewed as a terrible idea to setup your e-mail program to send “out of the office” or “vacation” messages. Here’s an excellent article that explains why:…
Fair housing and the elderly
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health has reprinted Preserving Elders’ Housing Rights, an article from the October 2003 issue of ATLA’s Trial magazine. The Bazelon Center site includes a substantial collection of other fair housing resources, articles and fact sheets…
Report to Congress about EBT
As California continues its statewide EBT juggernaut (expected to roll on through late 2004), FNS at its EBT site publishes a breezy 19-page status report to Congress about the state of EBT affairs nationally in Food Stamp Electronic Benefit Transfer…
I’m pink therefore I’m spam
Maybe there’s hope, after all, that the daily tsunami of spam messages that flood e-mail inboxes can be remedied, at least in part, by legal remedies. Exhibit A: California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has announced a state court judgment of…
My so-Called private life: public records and the Internet
For those fearful, or at least vigilant, of the risks to individual privacy created by increasing access to court records and other public documents via the Web: You may be interested to read Court Records and Privacy, a paper presented…
Map-a-Palooza continues …
The GIS mapping revolution is hot, Hot, HOT! One of the latest additions to the online arsenal of public-interest oriented mapping sites is the recently launched, Los Angeles-based Healthy City site designed to help folks there identify and locate services…
