LASS provides state courts with resources to overcome language barriers in the courts and to ensure that providing individuals with limited English proficiency with access to the courts is a core function of the courts.

Spanish-English Federal Court Interpreter Certification Examination homepage.

These standards intended to assist courts in designing, implementing, and enforcing a comprehensive system of language access services that is suited to the needs of the communities they serve.

This translation guide was compiled and edited by the Consortium for Language Access in the Courts’ Professional Issues Committee, a committee of volunteers dedicated to advancing the work of the state courts’ language access programs. It is meant to compile some lessons learned by program managers over the years and serve as a guide to help other program managers move forward with translation projects within their own court system.

State courts, faced with the steadily increasing necessity to provide interpreting services, are identifying innovative uses of technology to maximize existing interpreter resources, while remaining fiscally responsible.

The creation of a central recruiting, training, testing, and scheduling center for providing foreign-language interpreters is not just a theory anymore.  Alaska has created its Language Interpreter Center under the auspices of the Alaska Immigration Justice Project, anidea that can be replicated by other courts.

This article discusses the adoption of an interpreter program in state courts. The article looks at the details and provisions of this program and how it helps courts function more smoothly and how it helps non-natives to better understand court proceedings.

This manual, designed especially for court interpreters, covers basic security; the cycle and dynamics of aggression; in-court and out-of-court proceedings; defendant and inmate issues; weapons; travel to and from the workplace, as well as domestic and international travel; dealing with emergencies; personal safety.

This Judicial Bench Card gives guidance on providing qualified interpreters to assist the parties in protection order proceedings so that petitioners with limited English proficiency are on equal footing before the bench.

Explains court interpreting services in state and federal courts by examining the Consortium, whose purpose is to find qualified interpreters through rigorous testing.

Due to the influx of immigrants and refugees in the U.S., courts must eliminate linguistic barriers to ensure fair access to justice. This educational program for judges, attorneys and court managers teaches several aspects of court interpretation (such as the role of the interpreter, findings of court Task Forces, etc.) to ensure efficiency, understanding and cooperation.

Improving access to justice for linguistic minorities is but one of many challenges facing courts as the century draws to a close, and the financial capacity of most state courts is inadequate to address them all effectively. This resource book examines language interpretation problems and responses at several levels -- courtroom, local, state, and national.

(2012). Judicial Council of California/Administrative Office of the Courts. This guide, approved by the California Court Interpreters Advisory Panel, offers assistance to court and judicial staff in identifying when Video Remote Interpreting may be appropriate for American Sign Language interpreted events. In addition, this guide identifies minimum technology requirements for VRI and a self assessment for ASL interpreters planning to provide VRI services.

This report highlights best practices in the delivery of court interpreter services.

A technical assistance report of an operational review of the Administrative Office of the Trial Court of Massachusetts.  NCSC staff provides 26 recommendations to improve operations.

This report examines the issue of providing a deaf-hearing interpreting team as a reasonable accommodation in specific situations where a hearing interpreter alone is not sufficient.

This publication offers an overview of the essential factors needed to properly implement meaningful court access to LEP individuals. It includes a self-assessment for all federal agencies regarding their LEP plans, as well as develops language access directives, plans, and procedures.

This study explored the capacity of Limited English Proficient (LEP) petitioners to receive orders of protection.   The primary language resource that should be provided by the courts is interpretation, preferably carried out by certified interpreters.