Q&A
MOIA's approach to assessing compliance with Local Law 30
0:38:00
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3 min
Council Member Avilés questions MOIA's approach to assessing compliance with Local Law 30, noting the use of terms like 'to a degree' and 'generally compliant'. Kenneth Lo explains MOIA's role in supporting agencies' language access efforts and their baseline approach to compliance assessment.
- MOIA is not an enforcement agency but works to move language access forward
- Local Law 30 is used as a baseline structure for compliance
- MOIA provides assistance to agencies and conducts annual surveys
- Additional elements beyond the basic requirements are considered important for agency capacity
Alexa Avilés
0:38:00
So I noticed in in not only the reports, but certainly your language.
0:38:05
There's there are words that jump out at me.
0:38:09
You just said to a degree, we see in reports that say generally compliant.
0:38:19
We also see depending on is there any clear threshold here that Moya uses to understand compliance?
0:38:35
Is it just the 3 elements or the the basic elements a lang a designated language access coordinator and a plan, but it doesn't they're or is there anything beyond that that determines compliance or more specific threshold marker?
Kenneth Lo
0:38:54
In our work with the city agencies, we do basically and to use, you know, pretty frankly.
0:39:03
That's how the the approach that Moya has taken to move language access forward.
0:39:14
We are not an enforcement agency.
0:39:21
I do take the the structure of local law 30 as a as a baseline.
0:39:29
And there's a lot of diversity across agencies.
0:39:33
So we provide the assistance to try to move agencies forward in our annual survey.
0:39:42
That they provide agencies as part of monitoring.
0:39:48
It uses Looklot Thirty as the basic structure of the questions that we ask, and then we take add additional questions based on what we see as other elements that are important for an agency to have the capacity to move language access for
Alexa Avilés
0:40:13
So in terms of I the loss the loss stipulates, I'm gonna call it a checklist, not to not to devalue any of those elements at all just for our sake of I'm not that creative in my language.
0:40:29
So so in beyond the checklist, you mentioned other components.
0:40:33
I think what we are trying to understand with some clarity is how Moya is is making their assessments around this compliance.
0:40:44
So beyond the checklist, what other elements is Moya identifying or that it uses in making assessments?
0:40:56
And then if you could note also how often are you assessing?
