Judge Kim Taylor
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Right, right. And that's a wonderful thing. And one of the first things I think I would tell anybody... Your 911 system, emergency communication, if they have information that tells you, oh, there's someone in that household that may have autism, whoever goes needs to know that right up front. So that when they go, they know what to expect.
And, you know, the person they have women to eye contact and verbal ability and such. I think we've got that in place pretty much around most of North Carolina.
Right, right.
Well, here's what happened. I've become, I guess it's probably happened to a lot of parents. As your child gets older and they don't go to school, somebody has to be with them, at least with my son.
And so I've had to back off a lot of the outside things I do. because I'm taking care of him a lot. But I do still try to stay involved, and Zach has helped a lot with that because he's making me do things. And I think he's doing a whole lot, at least in North Carolina and nationally.
So I'm working some with him, and then I have taken emails and calls from parents trying to help them with resources and such. I'm not traveling around like I used to to do training. Although if the internet was dead or maybe I could.
Well, yeah, if you got to communicate, you know, with someone in, say, England.
You don't necessarily have to go there. You could actually join some sort of a website or a Zoom meeting or something. So that does help with that. And the funny thing is, I don't know if you've seen this, but everybody's got the same problem. If you talk to a parent, say in Australia, their problems are the same as ours. Kind of a universal thing that's happening in Australia.
larger and larger numbers.
I think that's wonderful that you're getting ideas from other parts of the world because sometimes we feel out here in North Carolina, we don't feel that we're getting all that information. So it's great that you're doing it.
Well, you have the crisis intervention teams, which is great. And some of the larger towns and cities have it very well. Trying to divert someone with special needs into help rather than jail or prison. I was a member of the board of the Disability Rights of North Carolina, which is a federal organization.
And one of the primary goals of that group is to see how many people with disabilities are being incarcerated and released. wrongfully being incarcerated because whatever they did was related to their disability, not due to any mental intention to hurt anybody. So I worked with them for a large number of years.
Also seeing that people with autism are getting a whole lot better resources at an early age, and I think that really helps, you know, for them to become verbal and, you know, going to school. And I had one client who I represented them all. That young man graduated from college recently and is doing great. He's going to be a beneficial person for everybody.
Well, and that's a great question. It's very difficult, at least I was also head of the education committee for district court judges. And people are fighting for a little bit of time to come to the judges and make presentations. We only have conferences every, well, twice a year.
So the best thing we could do, I think, as far as education would be to develop something that goes out that people will watch. That's on point with their job that they think is relevant. And, well, sometimes you've got to make people watch stuff, sadly. But I think these professionals, for the most part, the judges that I know, I guess you can become really mean and angry, but...
A lot of people go to law school and into judicial system because they want to help people. And if you could show them that this is helping and this is not, you know, somebody just made up this diagnosis so they can get out of something. I think that's what, there are a lot of steps to suit them out there. Yeah, you've got autism, right?
Right. And that's true of a lot of different diagnosis and even, you know, people with addiction problems. So, yeah, I certainly agree with that. And, you know, if you stick somebody in prison here in North Carolina, they might not get any kind of help. for years and then they come out and they're nothing has caused them not to do what it was they did before.
I have seen more open-mindedness about it because a lot of people have somebody or know somebody that has autism. It's so prevalent now. And, you know, I can go and speak to a room full of lawyers and judges, and usually I can ask them, you know, raise your hand if you know somebody on the autism spectrum or have a relative, you know, and three-fourths of the room will raise their hand.
So I think in that sense, people are open. more understanding when it hits them at home. Judges are just like any other people.
Lawyers and judges are just like any other group of people. And you've got to show them, I think, that this is going to help not only your profession, but also the people who are affected by autism and their families. And as you say, if you're concerned about resources, it certainly helps to divert people from the jails and prisons.
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