REMARKS
MOIA's commitment to improving language access and potential role in compliance monitoring
1:15:35
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Kenneth Lo from MOIA discusses the office's commitment to improving language access and its potential role in compliance monitoring. Council Member Alexa Avilés acknowledges the progress while emphasizing the need for further improvement.
- MOIA is committed to moving forward with language access implementation
- The office is open to taking on a role in compliance or monitoring if necessary
- MOIA has grown significantly in the past year and a half, expanding its language access team
- There's a commitment to holding agencies more accountable as MOIA's capacity increases
Kenneth Lo
1:15:35
Sure.
1:15:35
Sure.
1:15:36
Obviously, I think I just I wanna add that, you know, this is in our arena.
1:15:42
We're committed to moving forward language access if that means being the the seat of compliance or monitoring, that's what we'll do.
1:15:57
I think just let all the recognition of things that we've been talking about, the the challenges of doing so, and, you know, our ongoing approach to improve on the work, it is all towards making sure that Patencies are complying with the law.
1:16:16
Mhmm.
1:16:20
The the statement that we're not an enforcer is is built on the nature of our office, the scale, the the the fact that, you know, a year and a half ago, there was really not much of a language access team.
1:16:42
They're grown.
Miral Abbas
1:16:44
Mhmm.
Kenneth Lo
1:16:46
As long as we can continue that work going forward and we have resources in place to do so, It's something that we're committed to going.
1:16:55
Mhmm.
1:16:57
Historically, we haven't been quite in the position to do so over the course of most of the language access over side of local at 30.
1:17:05
It was my boss in May during most of the work with the commitment of this administration or with Commissioner Castro, we've been able to grow the team And we'd like to keep on a course where we can hold more agencies accountable to the extent that we can.
