On March 15, Adam Finkel, NCRA Director of Government Relations, submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission in response to a report filed by the…
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The Takeaway interviewed NCRA member Amy Bowlen, RDR, CRR, CRC, a broadcast captioner from Imperial, Pa., and manager of training at VITAC, on March 3…
Register now to join the leaders from more than 40 state affiliates from across the country who are participating in the 2016 NCRA Legislative Boot…
State affiliates from across the country are making plans to participate in the 2016 NCRA Legislative Boot Camp being held March 20-22 at the Hyatt…
Ask any court reporter or captioner about the various assignments they’ve worked and the answers can range anywhere from a small town court case to…
In September 2015, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed bill S5533-B, referred to as the CART bill, which expands provisions to enable people who are deaf or hard of…
Oct. 8 marked the five-year anniversary of the Communications and Video Accessibility Act being signed into law. The CVAA mandated that any program that was…
On Aug. 5, the Department of Transportation ruled that captioning is required on televisions in all airports that receive federal financial assistance. This was in…
In a letter sent June 24, NCRA President Sarah E. Nageotte, RDR, CRR, CBC, urged Sen. John Thune to become an original sponsor of the…
The Madison Record, Madison, Ill., reported on April 13 that, after just one week of furloughs for Madison County court reporters, Chief Judge David Hylla…
On Feb. 19, NCRA filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission requesting that the agency waive a best practice required in its current captioning…
President Barack Obama has called on Congress to end the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration and proposed a 7 percent hike in spending above…
An article in the Nov. 5 National Law Journal reported that the U.S. Congress is reviewing proposed changed to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure…
Do you want to stay up-to-date with what is going on in the nation’s capital? NCRA’s government relations department provides members with a monthly recap…
Arizona’s Mohave County is expected to handle almost twice as many trials in its court system in 2013 from the year before, according to the…
According to the CCI Court Reporting blog, NCRA Participating Member Roger Flygare won a primary election to represent Washington State’s 30th Legislative District for a…