AGENCY TESTIMONY
Considerations for implementing new reporting requirements
0:18:45
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49 sec
The speaker outlines important considerations and potential challenges in implementing new reporting requirements for domestic violence shelters.
- All reporting legislation requires careful consideration for feasibility and capacity
- Seemingly minor alterations may require significant adjustments to:
- Workflows
- IT systems
- Processes
- Key factors to consider:
- Upholding client privacy
- Capacity to produce required information
- Capability to report in a timely manner
- Ability to ensure accuracy of data
- The agency expresses a desire to continue discussions with the council to align proposed legislation with these considerations
John Rojas
0:18:45
All reporting legislation, including legislation that amends existing local law mandated reports require careful consideration to assess for both the feasibility and the capacity to produce the report in a timely accurate manner.
0:18:59
What may appear at a surface level is a minor alter alteration to capture more information and pre existing reports may ultimately require significant adjustments to workflows, IT system, and processes.
0:19:10
That is why we would like to continue the discussion with the council beyond this theory, where they viewed our many parameters of this proposed legislation in a manner that best aligns with our ongoing obligation to uphold clients' privacy.
0:19:24
Our capacity to reduce this information, our capability to report in a timely manner, and our ability to ensure the accuracy of the data to truly reflect the metrics a given report aims to capture.
