Title VI Basics
$100: The fundamental prohibition of this 1964 Act, prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in federally funded programs.
What is Title VI?
Recipients must take reasonable steps to ensure meaningful access to information and services for these individuals.
Every agency receiving federal funds must designate an employee to coordinate Title VI compliance, often called this.
This movement focuses on the fair treatment of all people regardless of race or income regarding environmental laws.
What is Environmental Justice (EJ)?
Title VI prohibits discrimination in any program or activity receiving this type of funding.
What is federal financial assistance?
This four-factor analysis helps recipients determine the extent of their obligations to provide language assistance.
What is the Four-Factor Analysis?
This is the ultimate, and rarely used, penalty for non-compliance with Title VI
What is termination of federal funding?
When siting a new facility, agencies must consider if there is a disproportionate impact on this type of population.
What are minority or low-income populations?
This specific protected characteristic refers to the country where a person was born or where their ancestors lived.
What is National Origin?
Using a minor child to interpret in a sensitive legal or medical setting is generally considered this.
What is inappropriate/prohibited?
Before a formal investigation, this process is used to identify potential non-compliance issues.
What is a compliance review?
This phrase describes the act of steering, segregating, or excluding beneficiaries based on protected traits.
What is discrimination/segregation?
Unlike Title VII, Title VI does not cover this specific area of life regarding employees, unless the primary objective of the federal grant is employment.
What is employment? (Title VI covers beneficiaries, not employees directly).
This type of interpreter service, which is not physically present, is often used to provide immediate access to language assistance.
What is telephonic (or over-the-phone) interpretation?
A person who believes they have been discriminated against can file this with the funding agency within 180 days.
What is an administrative complaint?
Title VI requires that all programs, including those operated by contractors, comply with these, even if the contractor is private.
Title VI regulations prohibit both intentional discrimination and practices that have this type of effect.
What is a disparate impact?
The "safe harbor" provision stipulates that translating vital documents for LEP groups of a certain size (usually 5% or 1,000 persons) is considered this.
What is evidence of compliance?
Recipients must ensure that they do not use criteria that have the effect of defeating or substantially impairing this.
What is the accomplishment of the objectives of the program?
This type of analysis is required to ensure that the benefits and burdens of a project are distributed fairly.
What is a demographic or impact analysis?
This key Title VI provision states that no person shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
What is Section 601?