§3 DISTRICT COURTS TO PROMOTE EMPOWERMENT EVENTS.

Summary

Within 1 year after Sept. 4, 2018, and every year after, the chief judge (or someone they pick) in each federal judicial district must lead at least one public event. The judge must work with a state, local, tribal, or territorial domestic-violence service group or coalition and a state or local volunteer lawyer program. The event must promote free legal help to empower survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and to get citizens involved in helping them. In districts that include an Indian tribe or tribal organization (groups defined in the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, 25 U.S.C. 5304), the chief judge must lead at least one such event every 2-year period with the tribe to boost pro bono help for Indian or Alaska Native victims. Judges may choose how to run the events but should try to make them as helpful as possible and connect survivors with high-quality free legal services.