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Role and responsibilities of Language Access Coordinators
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Council Member Alexa Avilés inquires about the responsibilities of Language Access Coordinators, particularly in reporting noncompliance or inability to meet language needs. Kenneth Lo explains their role and potential improvements.
- Language Access Coordinators are point persons at their agencies for understanding and advancing language access obligations
- MOIA is considering how to improve the designation and resourcing of Language Access Coordinators
- The current law does not specify all aspects of what a Language Access Coordinator should be
Alexa Avilés
0:58:07
Got it.
0:58:08
So in terms of is it the responsibility of the language access coordinators to report either noncompliance or little capacity or inability to well, inability to meet?
0:58:23
Language needs?
Kenneth Lo
0:58:27
Language access coordinators are set up to to the point person at their respective agencies.
0:58:35
To understand the obligations, to communicate them with the rest of the agency and to advance language access.
0:58:46
I I will add here that this is one of the arenas where Moia, when we're considering how to improve local activity is to reconsider or to think about how those language access coordinators are designated.
0:59:10
And to ensure that they have the resources, but they need to do that work effectively.
0:59:22
Currently, the the law does not specify all of that language access coordinator should be.
0:59:31
We certainly have some thoughts on that, which we would love to discuss further with counsel in along with other arenas and to improve local authority.