for cross-language record integrity
— guarding the integrity of the cross-language record in the administration of justice —
The Foundation for Cross-Language Record Integrity exists for a single purpose: to hold cross-language evidence to the same evidentiary standards and foundation requirements that govern all other evidence in the courts of the United States.
The record is the instrument on which adjudication depends. It is what the parties argue from, negotiate on, what the trier of fact relies upon, and what the reviewing court examines. Its accuracy is not a formality; it is the predicate of every finding, judgment, and disposition. Where any portion of the record is unreliable, the adjudication that rests upon it is susceptible to the same infirmity.
The cross-language record is a permanent component of the record. However, this space stands ungoverned: without any protocol of reliability, and without any body charged with its oversight. The result is an unguarded channel through which infirmity historically has entered the record without detection — and without regard to which party it happens to favor or prejudice.
No category of evidence would be permitted to stand in this condition. The Foundation exists to end it.
To that end, the Foundation will promulgate the controlling definitions of the field and its practitioners; issue the standards and protocols by which the cross-language record is produced and preserved; advise the bench on their application; prepare legal practitioners to identify, preserve, and competently litigate the issues such evidence presents; establish a national curriculum for the cross-language record reporters; and render opinions, clarification, and guidance to any officer or judicial participant who seeks to engage with such evidence properly.
Underlying every act of the Foundation is a single commitment: to protect the administration of justice by protecting the integrity of the cross-language record in its entirety.
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To protect the record is to protect the profession.
501(c)(3)
Funds the development of the foundational language for doctrines and protocols for the bench, parties, and practitioners, education, and any work that sustains the integrity of the cross-language record.
501(c)(6)
Works in affiliation with the practitioners of the cross-language record: judicial interpreters.
For-profit · In development
A for-profit office bound by a duty to the profession and the record — an alternative to the predatory middle-vendor agencies, connecting judicial interpreters directly with the work and returning the profit to the practitioner.
The Foundation, to be organized as a 501(c)(3) public charity, will be dedicated to guarding the integrity of the cross-language record in the United States. The cross-language record is the judicial record, and the evidentiary standards of integrity that govern that record must be extended and upheld over its cross-language portion in equal measure.
Because The Foundation recognizes judicial interpreters as the sole guardians of the cross-language record, the development and protection of the profession is the development and protection of that record’s integrity itself. The Foundation’s work — through legal analysis, judicial papers, formal correspondence, and the development of institutional standards governing evidentiary integrity of the cross-language record — addresses a structural gap the profession has historically lacked the means to resolve. To that end, the Foundation seeks to establish the means by which judicial interpreters may govern their own profession.
Unlike a labor union, an employee rights organization, or a general advocacy body, the Foundation’s focus is the function of the cross-language judicial record. We are now accepting provisional members from both federal and state judicial interpreters from all states, and attorneys and all other practitioners who work with the cross-language record. There is no fee at this stage. You will be notified once the Foundation is formally registered.