CA AB1877

Office of Emergency Services must create a library of translated emergency notifications for use by designated alerting authorities, considering the two most commonly spoken languages other than English in the state.

Office of Emergency Services must create a translation style guide that includes a glossary of translated standard abbreviations used in emergency notifications.

Designated alerting authorities shall consider using the library and translation style guide when issuing emergency notifications to the public.

Office of Emergency Services may require cities, counties, or city and counties to translate emergency notifications as a condition of receiving voluntary grant funds related to emergency management performance, six months after launching the library and style guides.

Designated alerting authorities may use hyperlinks to translated emergency notifications in wireless emergency alert messages and nothing in the law shall delay or prohibit timely issuance of emergency notifications.