Legal Content on Georgia's State Wide Website

Atlanta Legal Aid Society and Georgia LS Program Lay - 020038

Abstract Number: 020038

July 2002

Georgia's Statewide website, a joint project between Atlanta Legal Aid Society (ALAS) and Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP), makes use of excellent lay legal educational materials to educate and inform their website visitors about their basic legal rights and responsibilities in a straightforward and comprehensible way. While the Statewide Website draws on a number of sources, including client educational brochures, self-help forms, and links to state and national web sites, a number of the materials are excerpted from An Introduction to Law in Georgia. This textbook, written by the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia and edited and published by the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government, was originally intended for use as a high school law textbook but has been provided for free for use on the Statewide website. Excerpts on the website include information explaining Constitutional issues such as Equal Protection and Due Process but also address more concrete issues such as suggestions on what one should do in the event of traffic accident. Recently, An Introduction to Law in Georgia was translated into Spanish to educate the rapidly increasing Spanish-speaking population in Georgia.

The Carl Vinson Institute of Government gave permission to ALAS and GLSP to use this material on their Statewide website in exchange for the marketing opportunity it provided. Georgia's Statewide website provides a link to the Carl Vinson Institute's website as well as listing them as a sponsor behind the project. To access Georgia's Statewide website, visit: http://www.legalaid-ga.org.

Contact Information:

Tracey M. Roberts
ALAS / GLSP Web Project Manager
Atlanta Legal Aid Society
151 Spring Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Phone: (404) 614-3934
Email

Georgia Legal Services Program
1100 Spring Street, Suite 200
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Phone: (404) 206-5376
troberts2(at)glsp.org

Bibliographic Information:

• An Introduction to Law in Georgia, Third Edition, published by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, 1998 (updated 2001).

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