Post by Center for an Informed Public

Last fall, a team of Center for an Informed Public researchers started work to better understand the relationship between judicial communications and public trust in courts and legal institutions in Washington state. In a recent blog post, CIP researchers share their early findings, which suggest (1) a need for a broader cultural shift within the judiciary, away from institutional silence and toward more proactive communication with the public; (2) structural investment in a modern and publicly oriented communications infrastructure as a component of our judicial branch; and (3) attention to connecting with the public through a unifying and more authentic value-based narrative approach. Read more in "A failure to communicate: Declining judicial trust and a new approach to institutional communication," published May 14: https://lnkd.in/gneDtB8k