McDonald's Legal Talk Desk and Fellowship Programming

Program series held at McDonald’s near Chicago Police Headquarters to receive legal advice, campaign updates, and fellowship

• Chicago 400 Campaign
• Maps
• McDonald's Legal Talk Desk and Fellowship Programming
• Organizing Model and Campaign Structure
• Chicago 400 Conferences
• Drawing, Sculpture, Sound, Performance, and Radical Social Practice
• Why This Issue

McDONALD'S LEGAL TALK DESK

To address the unique and invisible problems people in the Chicago 400 are having with the complex and confusing registry laws, volunteers help organize an ongoing legal clinic at McDonald’s with volunteer attorneys, managing the case coordination for people seeking help, and following up with Illinois State Police, Chicago police, and other attorneys as needed. We also convene a roundtable for these attorneys and other interested advocates to discuss the best way to bring relief in individual cases, to leverage these cases into changes in state law, and to build more legal resources to address this huge gap in services. The Legal Talk Desk has been critical in finding out how these state laws are administered by police and to decipher the best legal and legislative strategies to address them. It is taking a lot of work to decipher these problems but we are all committed to it. Especially huge thanks to Sara Garber at Thedford Garber Law for ongoing support.

McDONALD'S FELLOWSHIP WEEKS

Many people impose stigma and banishment on people on registries, and it leads men and women to struggle with drug addictions, loss of faith, and cycles of grief, despair, loss, and shame. Working with Kolbe House Jail Ministry and volunteer social workers, volunteers also program shifts at McDonald's where people are available to provide and receive support, good will, and spiritual uplift.