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MOIA's recommendations for improving language access coordination
0:59:42
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Council Member Alexa Avilés asks about MOIA's recommendations for improving language access coordination. Kenneth Lo outlines several areas where Local Law 30 could be improved to enhance language access implementation.
- Refining the role and designation of Language Access Coordinators
- Providing more explicit guidance to agencies on translation requirements
- Specifying more detailed requirements for language access training
- Embedding language access considerations into city monitoring processes
Alexa Avilés
0:59:42
I'd love it sounds like you've thought about this and you've looked at it.
0:59:47
What are the recommendations that Maya has been has put forward around how to improve language access coordination?
Kenneth Lo
0:59:59
Well, there are certain arenas that you'll say over the course of implementing local authority or helping the guide agencies to implement local authority over 2 cycles and now into 3rd, find that it's an extremely valuable tool, but it is in some ways We've used the term a blunt instrument.
1:00:27
Mhmm.
1:00:31
And it was very useful for setting the stage, but as as the our work continues.
1:00:38
We try to refine how from our end, we can do monitoring in conjunction with operations to kind of embed those language access considerations into the processes.
1:00:52
The monitoring processes of the city.
1:00:55
Mhmm.
1:00:56
But internally, when we guide to agencies, you know, boost to specify what those requirements are per se, Just the naming of the language access corridor is a step, but making sure that the right person is in the job would certainly advance how agencies can move forward with language access.
1:01:29
So language access coordinators is one arena providing more explicit guidance to agencies around what needs to be translated, provide more specific requirements around training.
1:01:47
Those are some of the areas that local out there could certainly improve.