"This is not just a question of sensitivity but fundamental good public safety," said Robin Toma, executive director of the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations and a member of the LAPD's language policy task force.
This language in the task force report does not rule out the possibility that the Administration is aiming to take a tougher stance when it comes to actually issuing regulations.
The order's language will likely encourage the task force to see if USPS can charge companies like Amazon more for parcel delivery.
The order's language will likely encourage the task force to see if USPS can charge companies like Amazon more for parcel delivery, a person who previously worked at the Postal Regulatory Commission said on condition of anonymity.
And the most comprehensive fix to that language, crafted by a state task force in 2008, was quietly set aside during the state Capitol negotiations that created California's top-two primary system.
The announcement of the task force on Spanish-language media comes just weeks after Media Matters, a research group that monitors what it calls "rightwing misinformation," announced a new program to scrutinize Latino media more closely.
Robert Berger, a member of Temple Sinai Oakland who is spearheading a Jewish/Muslim relations task force, highlighted the hostile language directed at Muslim Americans on the presidential campaign trail.
After studying recent clinical trials, however, the task force scrapped its hedged language and endorsed a clear negative.
The Digital Humanitarian Network consists of many groups, from those that create maps, like Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, and those who curate social information like Humanity Road and Standby Task Force, to those bridging language skills like Translators without Borders.
Alexander, who served on the task force that revamped the language that year, said the change was designed to help the growing number of voters who now want to be unaffiliated with political parties.
Mr. Levy will have some recommendations that were not in the task force proposal, including the expansion of a language instruction method known as dual language, officials said.
