Cerritos College Seeks Congressional Funding For Captioning Program
Posted on June 25th, 2008 at 12:58 pm, by Patty D
Help is needed to ensure funding for captioning program!
Cerritos College in Norwalk, California needs our support in obtaining Congressional funding to create a captioning program. A huge portion of the captioning grants involve recruitment and advertising for the court reporting and captioning professions. The rest relates to equipment, software, resource material, training and curriculum.
Cerritos College is the only California school applying for earmarks this year. No California school has yet received Federal funding for this purpose, though several schools across the nation already have.
Part of the NCRA grassroots process is to get court reporters, captioners and consumers to write letters of support to our state senators and our local representatives. Please go to Cerrritos College’s website to help in this important process.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:05 am
I hope they get the money they deserve! It can do nothing but help our future court reporters get so much more in the way of their education.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Wow, I have a friend who went to Cerritos College and loved it. They are really proactive and really help their students. This funding would be great for them!
June 30th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I just read in the paper that San Francisco Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier has authored a bill to force private businesses to activate closed captioning on any TV displayed in public. This is fantastic news, but we will need the reporters to fill these necessary slots. I always make a point to let people know that closed-captioning is made possible by court reporters. Most people think it’s some kind of voice recognition software.
July 5th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Michela Alioto-Pier’s closed captioning bill passed on the first reading 10-0! (BTW she is paralyzed from the waist down.)
I feel confident that if several states across the country have received federal funding, then so will Cerritos.
I am also surprised at how many people, even in the legal profession, don’t know that closed captioning is done by CR’s.