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Kansas Legal Services asks Harvey County for $5,000 to support local self‑help center and protection docket
Summary
Kansas Legal Services requested a $5,000 county grant to sustain a monthly self‑help legal clinic and a Friday protection‑from‑abuse docket that provides free representation to victims; commissioners asked for grant details and funding sources to be included in the county budget packet.
Becky Hesse, an attorney with Kansas Legal Services, asked the Harvey County Commission on June 3 for a $5,000 contribution to support a monthly self‑help legal clinic and a protection‑from‑abuse docket that Kansas Legal Services staffs in Harvey County.
Hesse described two statewide grants that fund the program—Access to Justice (for the self‑help center) and VOCA (Victims of Crime Act, for the protection docket)—and said Kansas Legal Services also…
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