as you can see here, we take calls in english, spanish, cantonese, mandarin, russian, arabic, and tagalog. anyone who would like to report a crime can do so on that line. if they speak another language, we'll obviously get assistance to help them with that. there are no immigration consequences for calling this number and reporting a crime. the d.a. has done a lot of outreach to different communities to reassure them that our office was here to be supportive of them

as you can see here, we take calls in english, spanish, cantonese, mandarin, russian, arabic, and tagalog. anyone who would like to report a crime can do so on that line. if they speak another language, we'll obviously get assistance to help them with that. there are no immigration consequences for calling this number and reporting a crime. the d.a. has done a lot of outreach to different communities to reassure them that our office was here to be supportive of them if there was actual crimes, if there was information they wanted us to look into, along with the police department, that we're available to do that. and we're always available to speak to other communities about this work or other parts of our office. and then, we also have community advisory boards that come in to meet with the district attorney and attorneys in our office. so as it relates to this hearing, we do have an lgbt group, and we have serl other groups based on racial and other identities, and we find in those a lot of intersectionality. we'll find one board is interesting in partnering with one of the other communi

in nevada, particularly in southern nevada, we have a large filipino population, tagalog is an important language, obviously, and that's a barrier for those who do not speak spanish. so can you talk a little bit about language barriers and how you address those and what we should be doing to keep that in mind when we're talking about reaching out to everyone in our communities when there is a crisis or concern of a natural daser. >> well, as you noted, the commission, back in 2016, adopted rules to facilitate spanish language alerts. duo currently have the broader issue that is pending before us that we're still considering regarding other languages. and to what extent w.e. alerts -- we should will looking at w.e. alerts in other types of languages. >> not there yet, though? >> not there. it's pending. >> and then, mr. bergman, if you don't mind talking a little bit about how you -- particularly with spanish, how you overcome that barrier with the technology. >> sure, senator. i think we certainly agree with you and think that's an important improvement. it's one that we're working dilig