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LAJC Priority Bills Update
We have reached the halfway point for the 2024 General Assembly Session. For the past month, LAJC and our community partners have been actively… Read More
“Virginians to State Leaders: Deliver Justice on Court Debt” Press Conference
Richmond, VA—Virginians with lived experience; elected officials including Delegates Price, Cousins, Jones, and Hernandez; Senator Williams-Graves; and advocates from the Legal Aid Justice Center… Read More
The General Assembly Begins!
Today marks the start of the 2024 Virginia General Assembly Session, and we are excited for the chance to once again advocate alongside community… Read More
WELCOME OUR NEW STAFF!
In the past few months, we have been joined by a number of fantastic new staff members! Meet the staff who have started with… Read More
Ruby Cherian
Ruby Cherian joined LAJC in 2023 as an Equal Justice America Fellow. She works in the Civil Rights & Racial Justice Program. She received a… Read More
Important win at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Today, an en banc panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a decision holding that clients of LAJC… Read More
Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women
Scott V. Clark Lawsuit at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women In 2012, the Legal Aid Justice Center, and its partners at the Wiley Rein… Read More
Removing barriers through record expungement
We recently partnered with The Expungement Council, UVA Law students, and local government officials to host an expungement clinic in Charlottesville, helping residents locally and across the state… Read More
Striking down Virginia’s archaic “Habitual Drunkard” law
In 2019, the Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, struck down Virginia’s statutory scheme that permitted the state to interdict and prosecute people as “habitual… Read More
Ending driver’s license suspension for court debt
Six years ago, a Charlottesville jail superintendent brought a serious problem to the local reentry council: the jail was full of people locked up… Read More
