Legal Notices in Newspapers (H 7748, S 2494)

In May, the Affiliate testified before the House and Senate Judiciary committees in opposition to legislation which would remove the requirement that legal notices be posted in a newspaper, and instead permit them to be posted on a website.  While computers and the internet are certainly becoming more ubiquitous, the “digital divide” is still very much a reality; as recently as April 2012, one in five American adults reported that they do not use the Internet.  Among adults with disabilities, more than half do not use the Internet.  The Affiliate testified that these individuals should not be barred from receiving access to legal notices because they do not have access to websites.  The legislation failed to move out of either committee.