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started as a class project for three St. Catherine University students
led to St. Paul police changing its policy on how St. Paul police
officers are to communicate with people who are deaf.</p>
<p>The students, who just completed their second year in the St. Paul
university’s American Sign Language/interpreting program, raised their
concerns in a letter to the police chief at the end of December.</p>
<figure id="gmail-attachment_3066984" class="gmail-wp-caption gmail-alignright gmail-size-article_inline_third"><img class="gmail-lazyautosizes gmail-lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.twincities.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image2.jpg?w=620&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px&ssl=1" alt="Undated courtesy photo, circa May 2018, of Catherine Fensom, one of three students in the American Sign Language/Interpreting program at St. Catherine University who wrote to the St. Paul police chief about their concerns about the department's policy for communicating with people who are deaf. The police department met with community members and recently changed their policy, as a result of the letter from the students. (Courtesy of Catherine Fensom)" width="2069"><figcaption class="gmail-wp-caption-text">St. Kate’s student Catherine Fensom</figcaption></figure>
<p>“Interactions with the police can be stressful and difficult, and
clear communication is important,” wrote students Catherine Fensom, Liza
Leja and Pat Schmatz. “The potential for misunderstanding is high when
the interpreter has limited language skills.”</p>
<p>Deputy Police Chief Paul Iovino said they immediately got to work
after hearing from the students. They met with an official from the
Minnesota Department of Human Services’ Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Services, along with representatives from six associations who work with
deaf people, to discuss policy suggestions. They implemented many of
them this month in a <a href="https://www.stpaul.gov/books/40901-persons-disabled-communication" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revised policy</a>, Iovino said.</p>
<p>The previous policy said an officer must make a “qualified”
interpreter available before taking a statement from a deaf person who
is under arrest, but the revised policy specifies the interpreter must
be nationally certified. Officers were previously required to provide
victims or witnesses with a pen and paper or other way to communicate.
The new policy says they may provide them an interpreter.</p>
<p>Iovino applauded the St. Kate’s students for taking their classroom
learning and applying it to the community to bring about change.</p>
<p>“It’s not always flattering to read that we have an outdated policy
that deserves and needs immediate attention, but we immediately wanted
to be very good stewards with the policy,” he said. “… “We do want to
make sure we’re providing trusted service with respect to all
communities and this gets us closer to continuing to do that.”</p>
<p>One of the groups involved in providing feedback to police, Helping
Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf (HEARD), said in a statement
Tuesday they “have a number of concerns with the policy and are working
with our communities to develop a public response.”</p>
<h4 class="gmail-">PREVIOUS LAWSUIT</h4>
<p>The <a href="https://www.twincities.com/2013/05/08/deaf-motorist-who-got-93k-from-st-paul-hopes-police-learn-from-arrest-incident/">police department agreed to change its policy in 2013</a> as part of a $93,450 settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by <a href="https://www.twincities.com/2014/01/23/doug-bahl-63-remembered-as-strong-advocate-for-minnesota-deaf-community/">Doug Bahl, who was deaf</a>.</p><div id="gmail-div-gpt-ad-Cube_Article" class="gmail-dfp-ad gmail-dfp-Cube_Article">
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<p>In 2006, a St. Paul police officer pulled Bahl over for a traffic
violation and Bahl requested to communicate with him in writing. Bahl
said in his lawsuit that the officer sprayed him with a chemical
irritant, dragged him out of his car and beat him.</p>
<p>Bahl’s attorney, Rick Macpherson, said Tuesday he noticed the newest
policy change emphasizes using certified interpreters. That issue is at
the center of a federal lawsuit Macpherson filed on behalf of Catrina
Hooper, who is deaf, against the St. Paul police department last summer.</p>
<p>Hooper asked for a qualified American Sign Language interpreter when
she attempted to file domestic assault charges and was provided with an
officer who is not certified in ASL, her lawsuit says.</p>
<p>Requiring that police use a certified interpreter is “a good step
forward” in the policy, Macpherson said, but he said that was supposed
to happen after the Bahl settlement agreement.</p>
<p>“Perhaps if they had adopted this policy after the Bahl agreement …
Ms. Hooper might not have had the problem she experienced,” said
Macpherson, who is with the Minnesota Disability Law Center.</p>
<p>Hooper’s lawsuit with St. Paul is ongoing. The city denies that the
officer who was provided to Hooper was not qualified as an interpreter,
according to a filing in the case.</p>
<p>Hooper also filed suit against Ramsey County and the sheriff’s
office, saying she was not provided an ASL interpreter in the jail when
she requested one, and they reached a $40,000 settlement last year. She
had been arrested on a misdemeanor warrant, according to the city’s
legal response to the suit.</p>
<p>Iovino said the policy change wasn’t related to the Hooper case, though “the timing was certainly appropriate.”</p>
<h4 class="gmail-">COMMUNITY INVOLVED</h4>
<p>For a project for their deaf culture class, Fensom said she and her
classmates decided, “with the climate in today’s society regarding
police officers, we thought it would be interesting to look at relations
between police and the deaf community.”</p>
<figure id="gmail-attachment_3066983" class="gmail-wp-caption gmail-alignright gmail-size-article_inline_third"><img class="gmail-lazyautosizes gmail-lazyloaded" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.twincities.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image1.jpg?w=620&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px&ssl=1" alt="Undated courtesy photo, circa May 2018, of Liza Leja, one of three students in the American Sign Language/Interpreting program at St. Catherine University who wrote to the St. Paul police chief about their concerns about the department's policy for communicating with people who are deaf. The police department met with community members and recently changed their policy, as a result of the letter from the students. (Courtesy of Liza Leja)" width="1620"><figcaption class="gmail-wp-caption-text">St. Kate’s student Liza Leja</figcaption></figure>
<p>To begin with, Fensom, Leja and Schmatz told the police department in
their letter that the name of the policy — “Persons Handicapped in
Communication” — was “startling” and “(m)any people who are deaf and
hard-of-hearing do not consider themselves handicapped.”</p>
<p>Iovino said they didn’t realize the wording was outdated. The new
policy is called “Effective Communication with Persons Who are Deaf,
Hard of Hearing, Deaf/Blind, Have Hearing Loss and/or for Whom English
is a Second Language.”</p>
<p>People from the deaf community weren’t involved in the policy change
last time, according to the police department. The students wrote they
had “learned about the long history of hearing people making decisions
for and about deaf people” and they urged the police department to seek
the community’s input.</p>
<p>Marie Koehler, Minnesota Department of Human Services’ Deaf and Hard
of Hearing Services regional manager, said her agency helped connect the
police department with people in the community and co-hosted a meeting.</p>
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make our communities safer by improving understanding between police and
people who are deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing,” Koehler said.<p></p>
<p>The group HEARD met with St. Paul police in mid-March and provided
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provide opportunities to comment on the draft policy, according to
HEARD’s statement, but they were surprised on May 15 to see an email
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<p>“The version as it stands has a number of deeply concerning issues
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<p>Iovino said last week that the document is “fluid” and “if things evolve … we’re going to change it again.”</p>
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<p>Fensom said she and her classmates weren’t expecting anything to come from their letter.</p>
<p>“All change starts small,” said Fensom, who is from Moorhead, Minn.
“It’s really exciting that the police department took our suggestions
and implemented them, and hopefully this will be the start of more
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