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<h1>State Judiciary to accommodate Hawaiian language in the courtroom</h1>
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<time><p>Jan 27, 2018</p></time>
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<div id="gmail-single_article_image_blur"></div><div id="gmail-single_article_image"><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/ogden_images/www.mauinews.com/images/2018/01/27043734/31-Solar-Telescope-Prote.jpg" class="gmail-attachment-large gmail-size-large" alt="A judge dropped an arrest warrant Thursday for the University of Hawaii professor Samuel Kaleikoa Kaeo who refused to respond in court to English and spoke Hawaiian instead. The state Judiciary announced Friday it would attempt provide interpreters when parties choose to speak Hawaiian in court. -- Maui Police Department photo" width="180" height="252"></div><p id="gmail-caption">A
judge dropped an arrest warrant Thursday for the University of Hawaii
professor Samuel Kaleikoa Kaeo who refused to respond in court to
English and spoke Hawaiian instead. The state Judiciary announced Friday
it would attempt provide interpreters when parties choose to speak
Hawaiian in court. -- Maui Police Department photo </p><p>The state Judiciary said Friday that it will provide qualified Hawaiian language interpreters <span class="gmail-quotations">“to the extent reasonably possible”</span> when parties in court proceedings choose to speak in Hawaiian.</p>
<p>The Judiciary announced the policy regarding Hawaiian language
interpreters two days after a bench warrant was issued for a Haleakala
telescope protester who spoke only in Hawaiian during a Wailuku District
Court proceeding.</p>
<p>After Samuel Kaleikoa Kaeo responded only in Hawaiian when asked to
identify himself in court Wednesday, Judge Blaine Kobayashi said he
couldn’t determine that the defendant in court was Kaeo and issued a
$750 bench warrant for his arrest.</p>
<p>The warrant was recalled Thursday, and another hearing was scheduled
Feb. 21 on the use of a Hawaiian language interpreter in Kaeo’s case.</p>
<p>Kaeo, 51, of Kula has pleaded not guilty to disorderly conduct,
obstructing a highway and refusing to comply with any police officer’s
order. </p>
<p>He was among six people arrested Aug. 2 when protesters gathered at
Kula Highway and Old Haleakala Highway to confront a large vehicle
convoy carrying equipment for construction of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar
Telescope at the Haleakala summit.</p>
<p>According to a news release Friday afternoon announcing the Hawaiian language interpreter policy: <span class="gmail-quotations">“The
Judiciary will provide or permit qualified Hawaiian language
interpreters to the extent reasonably possible when parties in courtroom
proceedings choose to express themselves through the Hawaiian
language.”</span></p>
<p>The news release said the Judiciary would develop implementation
procedures for the policy and would welcome community input. Comments
can be sent to <a href="mailto:pao@courts.hawaii.gov">pao@courts.hawaii.gov</a>.</p>
<p>People interested in serving as court interpreters in any language
can call the Office on Equality and Access to the Courts at (808)
539-4860. A basic orientation workshop for court interpreters is
scheduled Feb. 28 to March 1 on Maui.</p></section>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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