Government documents and services in New Jersey will soon be translated into seven languages in New Jersey, under a law Gov. Phil Murphy signed Friday.
Under the legislation (S2459), government agencies will be required to offer forms, notices and documents translated into seven of the most common languages. They would also need to start posting about the translation services provided for residents to see.
Currently, those documents are available mostly in English and Spanish, even though New Jersey has the nation’s fourth-highest number of residents who speak a language other than English.
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