Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.850 · Article 1. General Provisions
Language Access Representative
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Designation of Language Access Representative
The court in each county will designate a Language Access Representative. That function can be assigned to a specific job classification or office within the court.
(b) Duties
The Language Access Representative will serve as the court's language access resource for all court users, as well as court staff and judicial officers, and should be familiar with all the language access services the court provides; access and disseminate all of the court's multilingual written information as requested; and help limited English proficient (LEP) court users and court staff locate language access resources.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.850 adopted effective January 1, 2018.
Advisory Committee Comment
Subdivision (a). See Recommendation No. 25 of the Strategic Plan for Language Access in the California Courts, adopted by the Judicial Council on January 22, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/two/rule2_850
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- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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