Q&A
Development of dashboard for tracking language access across agencies
2:18:50
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Council Member Alexa Avilés inquires about the development of a dashboard or database for tracking language access across agencies. MOIA representatives discuss their plans to collaborate with the Mayor's Office of Operations to develop concrete measurements and metrics for language access.
- MOIA expresses a desire to work with the Mayor's Office of Operations on developing language access metrics
- Plans to make language access data public in the future
- Collaboration with the Mayor's Office of Operations on Local Law 30 monitoring
- Intention to build an internal dashboard and potentially make it public, drawing inspiration from other cities' practices
Alexa Avilés
2:18:50
That's that's fair.
2:18:51
I was I trying to make sense of the world when you read the reports.
2:18:56
So I I hear that.
2:18:57
In terms of Excuse me.
2:19:11
One quick second.
2:19:21
Is there I think I think you may have noted this earlier, so forgive me if I didn't catch it.
2:19:26
But did you did you say you were developing some kind of dashboard or database around, like, tracking across?
Young Kwon
2:19:37
Yeah.
2:19:38
As mentioned, like, we will we will love to work with the mayor's office of operation to develop a concrete measurement and metrics around language access.
2:19:48
And we really honor and value transparency.
2:19:52
So we would want to make these data public in the future, and we would love to yeah, collaborate to strengthen the monitoring system.
Alexa Avilés
2:20:02
So I appreciate your love for it, but what I'd like to know is is this actually something that is being pursued in earnest?
Kenneth Lo
2:20:13
As you mentioned, like, the this relationship with operations is developing.
2:20:18
The first step is taking a look at the existing MMR metrics and seeing where language access roughly fits in beyond the the specific metric on interpretation.
2:20:33
Now that's sort of, like, the beginning, but this is a deliberate focus on engaging around those those metrics.
2:20:45
You know, we have collaborated started to collaborate more directly around the local auth 13 monitoring.
2:20:54
About what that looks like.
2:20:56
There's self collaboration too on delivering upon that and engaging with the agencies.
2:21:02
And so those two threads together will are leading towards serve the basics around a a dashboard.
2:21:13
Certainly, internally, where we can build that out just in conjunction with MMR to make it more public.
2:21:19
We'd like to do so.
2:21:21
We'd look at examples from other cities where they do have some public information on dashboards and want to be able to have that kind of transparency into advanced language access.
