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Lee on community outreach and multilingual notification

New York City Council · May 29, 2026 · starts 0:30:50 · 56 sec

Lee asks whether residents are adequately informed about camera programs in multiple languages and for disabilities communities. Forgione describes robust community engagement across multiple channels and languages.

Linda Lee

And then, are the residents adequately informed about the programs or any changes, meaning multiple languages and, of course, reaching out to the disabilities community, for example?

Linda Lee

And how does that outreach look like?

Margaret Forgione

We do very robust community engagement.

Margaret Forgione

We're always looking to improve upon it, but I think the agency's made really great strides in the last 10 plus years

Margaret Forgione

in engaging communities across multiple channels, multiple languages, whether it's pop-up outreach or larger scale community workshops, online, social media.

Linda Lee

Any detail?

Eric Beaton

And just to add on, we have our street engagement teams that go into communities directly to meet where community members are.

Eric Beaton

And we use materials that are translated across the 10 most frequently used languages in the city.

Linda Lee

Okay, great.