San Francisco Language Access Ordinance 2018 Report San Francisco Language Access Ordinance 2018 | Page 20

CITYWIDE COMPLIANCE Three years ago, OCEIA introduced an online reporting tool to assist City departments in reporting their language access work and compliance with the LAO. OCEIA continues to make improvements to this tool to increase accuracy and ease of use. For this year’s summary report, OCEIA introduced a new online reporting format to give policymakers and community stakeholders more complete departmental data and a better sense of progress toward LAO compliance. The online dashboards have the flexibility to display department-spe cific information by year, compile aggregated citywide information, and compare data across the past three years. Visit us at sfgov.org/oceia/laoreport for complete: data on citywide service delivery to LEP clients departmental data and specific department reports LAO data collection methods are determined by each department's LAO coordinator and reported to OCEIA for annual analysis. As a result, there may be some inconsistencies in standards used by different departments. However, the new reporting tool allows for more useful analysis of yearly progress for individual departments. San Francisco Language Access Ordinance information The dashboards show sharp increases between Fiscal Year 2014- 2015 and 2015-2016, due to the 2015 amendments to the LAO that expanded mandatory reporting from 26 departments to 51 departments.