1. Implementing a LAIR Program at the state level: Arizona Experience
Lawrence F. Winthrop
Chair, Arizona Commission on Access to justice

2. Arizona experience: First steps
Identify potential federal funding
Confer with Chief Justice, Administrative Office of the Courts
Engage the Executive Branch
Provide research, statistics and other information to justify Executive involvement
Create discrete work group, to include:
Judges
Lawyers, including Legal Aid representatives
Court administrators
Executive Branch representatives
Public members

3. Preliminary research: executive branch
Governor’s public pronouncements
Social Services Agenda/Goals
Economic Development Agenda/Goals
State of State Speeches
Other public statements
Identify state agencies providing constituent services
Review agency websites, administrative mandates and rules
Public pronouncements by agency leaders

4. Governor’s Economic and Social Services Goals
Research results
Access to Justice Issues
Legal Aid Expertise

5. Research results Assisting jobseekers with criminal records
Assisting victims of crime, including domestic violence, vulnerable adult abuse, identify theft
Assisting homeless veterans
Assisting victims of opioid crisis

6. Next steps
Create advocacy “white paper” documenting research results, work group discussion, collaborative decisions re priority, and identify “next steps” for work group and Executive Branch engagement

7. Inter-agency engagement
Invited to Governor’s Task Force on Re-entry and Recidivism
Key government leaders: Governor’s policy advisors; Dept. of Corrections; Dept. of Economic Security and Dept. of Housing