New York attorney general calls on NWS to improve language access

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Mar 15 2022 | 00:03:34

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Earlier this month, New York’s attorney general called on the National Weather Service to improve its language access measures, in response to the disproportionate number of non-English speaking individuals who died during Hurricane Ida last summer.

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