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Page 1 of 4 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIEIED DATE 03-02-2017 BY C28W34B64 NSICG UNCLASSIFIED FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION POLICY DIRECTIVE 0889D 1. Policy Directive Title. FBI Sign Language Interpreting and Reading Program 2. Publication Date. 2016-05-12 3. Effective Date. 2016-05-12 4. Review Date. 2019-05-12 5. Date of Last Renewal. N/A 6. Authorities: 6.1. Title 5 United States Code (U.S.C.) Section () 3102 6.2. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 791, et seq.), as amended. 6.3. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 6.4. Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 (42 U.S.C. 12101, et seq.). 7. Purpose: The purpose of this policy is to provide sign language interpreting and reading services to applicants, employees, victims, subjects of investigations, witnesses for investigations, and/or Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) guests who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, blind, and/or visually impaired. 8. Policy Statement: 8.1. Overview 8.1.1. The FBI must provide assistive services to deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, blind, and/or visually impaired individuals (consumers) to facilitate the performance of official duties and meaningful participation in meetings, trainings, performance reviews, FBI-sponsored events, and other FBI the application process, investigations, and/or other interactions, as applicable.. 8.1.2. Assistive services include, but are not limited to, American Sign Language interpretation,. Communication Access Real Time Transcription (CART), and Reading Services.. 8.2. Requesting Services 8.2.1. All requests for services must be made to the Sign Language Interpreting Program (SLIP) by. submitting a request via the online Sign Language Request System (SLRs) located on the Qffice of. EaualEmployment.Qpportunity.Affairs..QesQA).Intranet.site. involved in FBI investigations, FBI event coordinators, hosts, facilitators, or points of contact (POC).. 8.2.3. The requesting entity must provide the following information when requesting services: 8.2.3.1. Date, time (including time zone), and duration of the event 8.2.3.2. Location and address of the event 8.2.3.3. Title and description of the event 8.2.3.4. pOc information, including full name; desk telephone number; cell phone number, if. 2/27/2017