Report: Report and Recommendations for the Translation and Distribution of Legal Materials for Hmong, Somali and Spanish Speaking Minnesotans (Minnesota 2007)

This Report and Recommendations for the Translation and Distribution of Legal Materials for Hmong, Somali and Spanish Speaking Minnesotans (2007) was developed by the Minnesota Legal Services Coalition to assist the Minnesota Judicial Branch in its efforts to increase and improve legal education materials and court forms available to Minnesotans with Limited English Proficiency. In particular, the findings and recommendations are intended to guide the Judicial Branch in its decisions about the types of materials to translate and means of distributing them. The recommendations were arrived at by researching the needs of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) community through surveys and other methods between June and December 2007, as detailed in the report below. The specific LEP groups studied include those whose primary languages are Hmong, Somali, and Spanish.