westchester

Westchester is making it easier for non-English speakers to access county services.

On Tuesday, Westchester County Executive George Latimer signed an executive order in Tuckahoe, directing county offices to translate documents and forms into eight prominent languages, including Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Arabic.

Although there are not state and federal laws requiring the translation, immigrant advocates say it is a service that is desperately needed.

"This executive order sends a clear message that we want every person that lives in this community to feel safe getting the information that they need to care for their families," says Latimer.

English is not the primary language of nearly 30 percent of the population in Westchester County.

Article 107073 Thumbnail

Westchester

WC | Weather

HVFORECAST

First weekend of December. But hey, it feels like November still. We have mild air in place. Unfortunately, this is gonna keep fog around for the first half of the morning, especially for Westchester Rockland, maybe Putnam County getting in on widespread fog for the rest of the morning too. So basically the lower Hudson Valley has the best risk for that temperatures warm up pretty quickly. We're talking near 50 by the time you hit lunch and we could, in places like Yonkers and S A 287 hits 60 degrees what in December? But again, it does come with a lot of cloud cover. So it's not a beautiful looking day. There'll be some peaks of sun this afternoon today though. Really isn't a big issue. If you have afternoon plans. The fog is a slight problem for morning plans tonight. We do have rain mostly after midnight. So if you're a late night owl, you're getting in on that Sunday morning, it's a wash right from the start. Mostly white rain, but there will be pockets of heavy rain throughout the morning and the afternoon on Sunday. I really don't see much dry time if any during the daylight on Sunday it goes soup weather, it goes gloomy and, you know, it's not cold but it's gonna feel cold when you have that kind of rain just so widespread across the area. Monday morning commute. Not that we want to talk about the commute on a Saturday morning, but either way Monday morning does look good if you're planning it. Ok. How about rain again? Not much if any today. But tomorrow I am expecting half of an inch to an inch of rain across the Hudson Valley. So that's pretty decent. But it happens over the course of the whole day, 100% guarantee it does rain. But again, we're not expecting this to be a really heavy rain. It's just a persistent steady rain all day. Temperatures drop into the forties for the upcoming week.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/8f4ac664-c624-455b-8966-fbcbda327f36/8f4ac664-c624-455b-8966-fbcbda327f36.transcribe

Westchester executive order helps non-English speakers access services