California’s courts are not consistently providing adequate interpreting services for non-English-speaking litigants, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has concluded.
In a letter to state judicial leaders, Deeana Jang, chief of the division’s Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, said language assistance practices of the Judicial Council, the Administrative Office of the Courts and Los Angeles County Superior Court “appear to be inconsistent with” the Civil Rights Act.
