Courthouse News Service

May 17, 2019

“People just don’t know that they need a court reporter. They aren’t going to know to fill out another form. It is hard enough to figure out the forms they have in front of them,” said Madeline Howard, a senior attorney with the Western Center on Law & Poverty. “What will happen is that litigants will not know how to make a request. They will usually not make one and then when they make their way to a legal services office, maybe after having a bad decision of the trial against them, we won’t know whether we can appeal, because we have no record of what happened.”

https://www.courthousenews.com/legal-aid-groups-dismayed-by-slow-rollout-of-court-reporter-mandate/