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Officials and advocates urge stronger enforcement, funding and an emergency language-access plan
Summary
At a May 20 hearing, the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs and community groups reviewed the 2021 Language Access Ordinance report and urged more funding, better data, stronger enforcement and a citywide emergency language-access plan; committee filed the hearing for follow-up.
City officials, immigrant-rights commissioners and community advocates on May 20 urged the Board’s Government Audit and Oversight Committee to strengthen San Francisco’s Language Access Ordinance (LAO) with more funding, accountability and better emergency protocols.
Adrian Pund, executive director of the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs (OCEIA), presented the 2021 language-access report and said the city’s total language-access spending rose to about $22 million — a roughly 40% increase from the prior year — but that the number of bilingual staff did not increase. "Language access should be a priority, not an afterthought," Pund said, arguing…
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