Georgia court leaders are wrestling with demands by the federal government that interpreters be provided for free to litigants who don’t speak English and economic realities that continue to shrink court budgets.
At the root of the controversy is a letter that the U.S. Justice Department sent state chief justices and court administrators across the nation last year. The letter said federal civil rights law required state courts to provide free interpreters not only to indigent criminal defendants, but also to defendants with plenty of money-and to civil case litigants and participants in court programs such as anger management classes.
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