Litigation

Colorado Institute Joins JAS Campaign

By Charlie Hall

Justice at Stake is delighted to welcome the Colorado Judicial Institute as a member of our national campaign partnership on behalf of fair, impartial courts.

CJI is one of the nation’s leading citizen organizations working to help courts through education and advocacy. It played a leading role in Colorado’s adoption of public judicial performance evaluations, which  inform voters about judges facing  retention elections. CJI also has helped spearhead the “Our Courts” program, in which judges speak directly to the public to build knowledge of, and trust in, state and federal courts.

As noted on Justice at Stake’s partners page:

The mission of the Colorado Judicial Institute (CJI), a non-profit, non-partisan citizens? organization founded in 1979, is to preserve and enhance the independence and excellence of Colorado courts, to further public understanding of the Colorado judicial system, and to ensure that the courts meet the needs of the people.

In order to achieve CJI?s broad mission, the organization takes on varied projects, such as: recognition of judicial excellence, raising private funds for continuing judicial education, public education on the state and federal courts through the Our Courts program, participation on commissions and committees to improve judicial selection and evaluation methods, research and publication in areas of family law, such as delinquency and neglect and foster care, and developing partnerships with national and state-based organizations. CJI is sustained through the support of individual and corporate members as well as grant funding for projects and programs.

To learn more about the institute, you can visit CJI’s web page.

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).