SRLN GIS Professional Services
SRLN is pleased to make its Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mapping services available to its members to help to drive data-driven solutions in the justice sector. We have staff with expertise in justice data and geospatial analysis and a full suite of Esri ArcGIS software and online tools to analyze your data and integrate it with other data sources to provide insight and answer tough questions on how to improve access to justice.
Year published:
2017
Document Author:
Alison Davis-Holland
Open to the Public – 2024 How Law Libraries are Serving Self-Represented Litigants Across the Country
The Law Librarians’ Working Group of the Self-Represented Litigation Network with the American Association of Law Libraries Government Law Libraries Special Interest Section Best A2J Practices Committee surveyed law libraries about their services to the self-represented litigant, including self-help programs. Results are displayed in this Story Map. This research and analysis was developed to expand SRL services among law libraries by demonstrating best practices for assisting SRLs.
Year published:
2024
Document Author:
SRLN
Resource: Interactive story map shows hurricane impacts and Florida’s vulnerable populations (SRLN & Florida Bar Foundation 2018)
The Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) helped The Florida Bar Foundation create a new data resource that reveals the impact of Hurricane Irma on Florida and the vulnerable populations who could potentially need civil legal aid in the recovery, and generally. With our Geographic Information Systems (GIS) expertise, we worked with The Foundation to develop an interactive story map that provides access to geospatial data from FEMA, HUD, the CDC, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Florida Department of Children and Families.
Survey: SRLN Library Working Group National Self-Help in Libraries Survey (SRLN 2019)
SRLN Report (March 2021) Evaluating Library Services to Self-Represented Litigants: A Story of Two Surveys
The Law Librarians’ Working Group of the Self-Represented Litigation Network surveyed law libraries in the summer of 2019 about their services, including self-help programs. Learn more about best practices and full survey results in this story map.
Year published:
2019
Document Author:
SRLN
Project: How Civil Legal Help Is Vital to Recovery from Hurricane Florence (North and South Carolina & SRLN 2018)
Hurricane Florence hit North and South Carolina on Sept. 14, 2018, bringing high winds and flooding and devasting damage. Civil legal aid organizations needed to quickly identify and reach out to the most impacted individuals to provide valuable services in their time of need.
Year published:
2018
Document Author:
Alison Davis-Holland, Katherine Alteneder, Suzanne Wade, Nancy Kinnally, SRLN, Self-Represented Litigation Network
Resource: Alaska’s Justice Ecosystem: Building a Partnership of Providers (SRLN 2017)
Created by the Self-Represented Litigation Network for the Alaska Court System, this Story Map describes Alaska’s civil justice ecosystem and the common civil legal issues that many Alaskans face. It recognizes that legal issues rarely occur in isolation. Often they coexist with medical and mental health challenges, substance abuse, domestic violence, homelessness, and poverty. If we are to provide Alaskans with 100% access to justice, we need to continue to build partnerships between legal providers, social service providers, medical service providers and information service providers.
Year published:
2018
Document Author:
Alison Davis-Holland
News: Interactive story map shows hurricane impacts and Florida’s vulnerable populations (Florida 2017)
The Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) helped The Florida Bar Foundation create a new data resource that reveals the impact of Hurricane Irma on Florida and the vulnerable populations who could potentially need civil legal aid in the recovery, and generally. With our Geographic Information Systems (GIS) expertise, we worked with The Foundation to develop an interactive story map that provides access to geospatial data from FEMA, HUD, the CDC, the U.S.
Year published:
2017
Document Author:
Alison Davis-Holland
Maps from the States
Below are examples of our GIS and mapping work including online Story Maps, interactive mapping applications, and static maps from a select number of states. For a national picture down to the county level, please see America's Civil Courts: Whom Do We Serve?
Alaska
Alaska’s Justice Ecosystem: Building a Partnership of Providers
Year published:
2018
Document Author:
SRLN
News: Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice Uses SRLN Maps for Statewide Strategic Planning (Illinois Supreme Court 2017)
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice has started using the SRLN demographics maps for presentations to circuit clerks, circuit court judges, civil legal aid and pro bono practitioners. “The maps helped provide context for why access to justice is so necessary by broadening our scope of focus onto statewide demographics,” states Danielle Hirsch, Assistant Director of the Civil Justice Division of Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts.
Year published:
2017
Document Author:
Alison Davis-Holland
Resource: America's Civil Courts: Whom Do We Serve? (SRLN 2023)
America's Civil Courts: Whom Do We Serve? is a geospatial story map produced by the Self-Represented Litigation Network to better understand local needs.
Year published:
2023
Document Author:
Alison Davis-Holland, Katherine Alteneder, SRLN