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SFPD updates language-access work as advocates press for faster improvements
Summary
Commander David Lazar reported fewer LEP incident reports year-over-year and outlined training, dispatch and signage changes; advocates and survivors described wrongful arrests and called for more bilingual officers and improved language assessment.
Commander David Lazar presented the department’s annual limited-English-proficiency (LEP) report and described steps to improve language access for victims and callers. Lazar said SFPD recorded 3,308 incident reports involving LEP persons in the January 2017–January 2018 period, compared with 4,222 incident reports in fiscal year 2016–17.
Lazar summarized department general order 5.2 procedures: request a certified bilingual officer to respond, follow with a…
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