Overcoming Language Barriers in Greater Rochester Emergency Alerting: A Listening Session with the Attorney General’s Office
The Office of the New York Attorney General (OAG) is excited to invite you to another ROC Community Partnership event. This event will focus on improving access to emergency information and how communities can use MonroeAlert, Monroe County’s new local alerting system, to keep informed when emergencies strike.
Last November, Monroe County’s Office of Emergency Management launched MonroeAlert, a key alerting tool for Monroe County and Greater Rochester communities. MonroeAlert is a free, secure service and can be your direct lifeline to critical, real-time safety information from Monroe County NY 9-1-1 and Emergency Management. Residents can sign up to receive alerts in English, Spanish, Arabic, Dari, Nepali, Swahili and Ukrainian, and alerts can also be delivered via American Sign Language (ASL) video. The only way to receive such alerts is to sign up for MonroeAlert.
Monday, June 15, 2026
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Office of Attorney General, 144 Exchange Blvd. (Ground Floor) Rochester NY
At this event, you can share your views and opinions about how to improve language access and accessibility in emergency alerting. For example, you can suggest ways that information about MonroeAlert can be shared with Rochester-area communities where Limited English Proficiency is widespread, and if there are additional languages you would like to see supported in MonroeAlert. You can also learn more about Attorney General James' leadership in this area, prompting the FCC to recently expand language access in emergency alerting to 13 languages and ASL.
ASL interpretation will be available. If you require an accommodation or interpretation to participate in a program, service, or activity of our office, please submit accommodation or interpretation request, preferably one week before the event.
