EPS provides guidance and enforcement to professionalism and conduct while offering a complaint filing and review process to address ethical decision-making concerns of interpreters
If possible, address the situation directly with the interpreter, the interpreting agency or the hiring entity and document the communication (emails/letters) before filing a complaint.
Describe how the interpreter’s conduct negatively affected you, others involved, or the situation itself.
List and submit your intended sources of evidence (witness statements, documentation, affidavits, etc.) that will be used to support the allegation(s)
Explain any efforts made to reach a solution with this interpreter before filing this complaint
Include the status of any legal action underway, at the time of this filing, related to this matter
Detail similar incidents (if any) of alleged misconduct you have experienced with this interpreter and include if this is the first incident or a series of events
Typed, written or electronic version
for a private link to upload your ASL narrative
Pro-tactile or other language needs
Detail a violation of the EPS Policy and/or the CPC.
Please select one of the following options below:
I wish to file an EPS complaint in ASL
I wish to file an EPS complaint in written English
Inform RID of public information that may be pertinent for the Ethics Department to know.
Please select one of the following options below:
I wish to file an EPS report in ASL
I wish to file an EPS report in written English
EPS Policy and Enforcement Procedures
Outlining RID’s EPS Policy and Enforcement Procedures which requires compliance with the CPC, EPS, objectivity, and fundamental fairness to all persons who may be parties in a complain of professional misconduct.
Learn more here about EPS Procedures >