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Nevada Commission on Ethics adopts language access plan; staff to follow up on ASL and translation resources
Summary
The Commission adopted a language access plan required by NRS 232.0081, approved modest training funding for outreach staff (including ASL and Spanish language training), and identified next steps to improve translated materials and translation requests for public meetings.
The Nevada Commission on Ethics voted Jan. 16 to adopt a language access plan intended to make the agency’s materials and public meetings more accessible to limited-English-proficiency residents and people who use American Sign Language.
The plan was presented by Executive Director Ross Armstrong, who said "NRS 232.0081 requires agencies to have a language access plan" and described the agency’s current measures — a Google Translate widget on state websites and machine-captioning options on posted meeting recordings — as starting points that need improvement.
Why it matters: The plan responds to a state statute aimed at increasing access to government services for residents who speak languages other than English. The commission’s work…
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