{"id":32271,"date":"2020-12-03T09:20:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T14:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=32271"},"modified":"2020-12-04T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:52:15","slug":"department-offers-online-licensing-services-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/12\/03\/department-offers-online-licensing-services-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Offers Online Licensing Services in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">COMPASS Portal Expands Outreach<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1915\/30332266757_36bd6baf01.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of man driving a boat with fishing rods on the back\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Stephen Badger<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces its online <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/compass.dnr.maryland.gov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">COMPASS portal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is now available in Spanish.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.dnr.maryland.gov\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">COMPASS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> portal will provide Spanish speakers access to the department\u2019s catalog of recreational licenses, permits and stamps, and other products and services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A button at the top of each page within COMPASS allows visitors to toggle between the \u201cEnglish version\u201d and the \u201cversi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol.\u201d<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This outreach underscores the department\u2019s commitment to providing all customers access to Maryland\u2019s recreational opportunities. In the past several years, the department has expanded its outreach to Maryland\u2019s Latino community including the yearly Es Mi Parque programs in Maryland State Parks throughout the summer months, and recruiting additional bilingual staff.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Becoming a COMPASS customer is quick and easy. The department also encourages first-time users to use its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Documents\/COMPASS_CustomerVerificationTutorial.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tutorial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to help obtain a DNRid Card for accurate identification at any sports license agent or DNR Service Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMPASS Portal Expands Outreach The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces its online COMPASS portal is now available in Spanish.\u00a0\u00a0 The new COMPASS portal will provide Spanish speakers access to the department\u2019s catalog of recreational licenses, permits and stamps, and other products and services.\u00a0 A button at the top of each page within COMPASS allows<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/12\/03\/department-offers-online-licensing-services-in-spanish\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,3171,11,3172,12],"tags":[3197,3416,5044,4960,5177],"class_list":["post-32271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-boating","category-fisheries","category-hunting","category-parks","tag-boating","tag-es-mi-parque","tag-fishing","tag-hunting","tag-licensing-and-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32271"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32313,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271\/revisions\/32313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}