Emergency Preparedness
Letter from Assistant Attorney General Kim to federal agencies regarding nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin: hurricane-related issues - December 12, 2005 (PDF)
Guidance
Prepared Remarks of Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King
to the Federal Interagency Working Group on Limited English Proficiency -
April 20, 2009
Letter from Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King to Oklahoma Attorney General advising that proposed English-only constitutional amendment might violate Title VI -
April 14, 2009
Letter from Coordination and Review Section Chief Merrily Friedlander to Indiana Courts
- Coordination and Review Section -
February 4, 2009
Letter from Deputy Assistant Attorney General Loretta King to
State Departments of Corrections
July 15, 2008
Prepared Remarks of Acting Assistant Attorney
General Grace Chung Becker at the Hawaii Conference on Language Access - March 28, 2008
Letter from Assistant Attorney General R. Alexander Acosta to recipients of federal financial assistance regarding
LEP materials - June 10, 2005
Letter from Assistant Attorney General Acosta
to state court administrators with information about new LEP materials - April 22, 2005
Letter from Deputy
Assistant Attorney General Loretta King to state court administrators regarding LEP Guidance -
December 1, 2003
Letter from Assistant Attorney General Ralph Boyd to Georgia Attorney General - July 11, 2002
LEP Policy Guidance for DOJ Recipients
(PDF) - June 18, 2002
Letter from Assistant Attorney General Ralph Boyd to Massachusetts Administrative Office of the Trial Courts concerning funding for court interpreters - April 12, 2002
Implementation and Compliance
Memorandum signed by the Director of Adult Institutions, California Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation, to implement department-wide language assistance procedures - June 15, 2009
Notification to 30 California Department of
Corrections Adult Institutions of new language assistance procedures, bilingual staff at each location, translated materials available - June 15, 2009
Memorandum of Understanding
between the United States of America and the State of Maine Judicial Branch - September 29, 2008 - Press Release
It should be noted that, unlike the definition of limited English proficiency contained in the Department of Justice LEP Guidance, which derives its definition of LEP persons as "those individuals who have a limited ability to read, write, speak or understand English" from Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (which prohibits recipients from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin, and contemplates a close nexus between one's national origin and one's language), the Maine Judiciary definition of LEP includes individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. For further information on legal issues involving the deaf or hard of hearing
community, please visit ADA.gov, the website of the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
Memorandum of Agreement between USA and Town of Mattawa WA - March 18, 2008
Memorandum of Agreement between USA and Lake Worth,
FL Police Department - March 13, 2007
Guidelines for Determination of Eligibility for Court-Appointed Interpretation and Translation Services
Supreme Judicial Court, State of Maine - October 11, 2006
Lost in Translation: Limited English Proficient
Populations and the Police by Bharathi A. Venkatraman, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Coordination and Review Section, US Department of Justice, April 2006.
Planning Tool: Considerations for Creation of a Language Assistance Policy and Implementation Plan for Addressing
Limited English Proficiency in a Law Enforcement Agency (MS Word)
Coordination and Review Section
Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
Planning Tool for Creating a Language Assistance Policy and Plan in a Department of Corrections
(MS Word)
Coordination and Review Section, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
Executive Order 13166 Limited English Proficiency Resource Document: Tips and Tools from the Field (PDF) - September 21, 2004
Language Assistance Implementation Plan
for Federally Conducted Programs Pursuant to Executive Order 13166 - January 10, 2001
Press Release
Announcement for Organizations: Conference on Federal Efforts to Increase Accessibility to Limited English Proficient Individuals (español)
Conference Agenda
Transcript of Remarks from Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Wan J. Kim
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of Treasury
Department of Veterans Affairs
Guidance
LEP
Policy Guidance for VA Recipients PDF
Environmental Protection Agency
Guidance
LEP Policy
Guidance
Multilingual Websites in Korean and Vietnamese - 5/21/08
Equal Opportunity Employment Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Trade Commission
General Services Administration
Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Archives and Records Administration
National Council on Disability
National Credit Union
Association
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Science Foundation
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Office of Management and Budget
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Railroad Retirement Board
Small Business Administration - (pending)
Social Security Administration
US Commission on Civil Rights
US Consumer Product Safety Commission
US Office of Special Counsel