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MLRI Comments on MassHealth Draft Language Access Plan

Vicky Pulos & Teresita Ramos
Attached are MLRI comments on MassHealth's Draft Language Access Plan. The Medicaid agency is required by law to provide meaningful access to its services to individuals who are not proficient in English. A language access plan should asses the language needs of the eligible population and…

HUD and Virginia Realty Conciliation Agreements

US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Overview In August 2011, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) filed a complaint against Virginia Realty Company of Tidewater (“VR”) et. al. averring violation of the Fair Housing Act. VR adopted an explicit policy requiring English proficiency as a…

DTA Language Access Complaint (denied interpreter - Haitian Creole)

Naomi Meyer, GBLS
The attached December 2012 complaint was filed by Naomi Meyer of Greater Boston Legal Services under the Department of Transitional Assistance's Language Access Plan for failure to provide language access and copied to Ron Marlow with the Office of Access and Opportunity. The complaint is in…

DTA Language Access Complaint (denied interpreter/Spanish speaking)

Naomi Meyer, GBLS
The attached complaint was filed by Naomi Meyer of Greater Boston Legal Services in October of 2012 under the Department of Transitional Assistance's Language Access Plan for failure to provide language access and copied to Ron Marlow with the Office of Access and Opportunity. The complaint is in…

Comments to A&F Bulletin #16 Revisions and Response from OAO

Naomi Meyer, Greater Boston Legal Services and Ronald Marlow, Office of Access and Responsibility
Administration & Finance Bulletin #16, Language Access Policy and Implementation Guidelines, was updated and re-released on October 10, 2012 and required all agencies in the Executive Branch in MA to update their Language Access Plans. Greater Boston Legal Services drafted a letter to…

Successor Settlement Agreement between DOJ & BPS

Department of Justice, Department of Education & Boston Public Schools
As DOJ describes in their April 23, 2012 press release, "The Department of Justice and the Department of Education reached agreement with the Boston Public Schools (the district) and its superintendent today to ensure that English Language Learner (ELL) students in Boston receive the services and…

Still Lost in Translation

Make the Road New York & the New York Immigration Coalition
(NY) City Agencies' Compliance with Local Law 73 and Executive Order 120: Examining Progress and Work Still to be Done  

Complaint Letter to HUD about Violation of Title VI and Title VIII

Lynn Girton and Ed Rice
The attached complaint is a letter to the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity - United States Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding a low-income Spanish speaking mother who was discriminated against on the basis of national origin in violation of Title VI and Title VIII. The…