Ebonics Translator Wanted
The Department of Justice is looking for to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to assist monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A optimum of nine Ebonics professionals will work using the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, in which the linguists, right after acquiring a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media”
The DEA’s will need for full-time linguists specializing in Ebonics is comprehensive in bid documents associated towards the agency’s mid-May issuance of a request for proposal (RFP) covering the provision of as several as 2100 linguists for that drug agency’s various area offices. Answers towards the proposal were due from contractors on July 29.
