Federal Agency LEP Guidance

The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an LEP guidance document (DOJ Guidance) to assist each agency in developing LEP Guidance. The DOJ Guidance sets forth compliance standards recipients must follow to ensure programs and activities they normally provide in English are accessible to LEP persons. Recipients were also reminded that they are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of national origin in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Agency LEP Plans                                                                           

Pursuant to Executive Order 13166, each Federal agency was to prepare a plan to improve access to LEP persons, consistent with the DOJ Guidance, to ensure meaningful access to agency programs and activities.

Each LEP plan was to describe how the general standards of the DOJ Guidance would be applied to the recipients, taking into account the types of services provided by the recipients, the individuals served, and other factors specified in the Guidance.

In developing these LEP plans, agencies were advised to receive input from stakeholders. A complete listing of each Federal Agency with LEP Guidance is available at this link. Each of these agency plans is also available at the website http://www.LEP.gov.

Federal Documents     

A list of all Federal Agency LEP Plans is available at this link.

Last Updated: August  11, 2008 ● Empire Justice Center © 2008