Garfield County’s Latino advocacy committee wants to see more Spanish-speaking dispatchers hired in the county to assist Latino residents who call 911. Recently, the county’s Latino Community Committee met with the county Emergency Communications Authority.
Editor’s note: This is the first in an ongoing series of articles in the coming weeks and months touching on the issues in the Garfield County Commissioner District 1 race, as well as other elected.
Garfield County’s emergency services operate with 21 people directly responsible for running dispatch but only two speak Spanish, a Garfield County official said to the county’s Latino Community Committee on Wednesday.
We asked 18 area residents from the newly named Colorado Teacher of the Year and local government leaders to first responders, community organizers, health care professionals, a student and other personalities what they…