Updated 6/6/13
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Know Your Rights Resource
- AIRPORTS
- FREE SPEECH, PROTEST
- First Amendment Toolkit - All about free expression in Hawaii.
- Your right to protest - A general primer on the right to protest.
- Honolulu Corporation Counsel letter regarding the rights of street performers (2009)
- First Amendment activities at City & Count Parks (click on “First Amendment” in upper left corner): http://www1.honolulu.gov/parks/index.htm
- IMMIGRATION
- Tongan language: Your rights encountering immigration officials in Hawaii
- Know your rights when encountering law enforcement (special emphasis on rights of non-citizens and ICE encounters) http://mobile.aclu.org/bustcard/
- Racial Profiling – Know Your Rights! http://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform-immigrants-rights-racial-justice/know-your-rights-what-do-if-you
- Spanish language: Qué debe hacer si la policía, agentes de inmigración o el FBI lo detienen
- INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS
- Shackling Pregnant Inmates-Hawaii
- Assault and excessive force
- Diabetes
- Disciplinary sanctions and punishment
- Environmental hazards and toxic materials
- Excessive heat and cold
- Freedom of religion
- Prisoners’ Assistance Directory
- Law libraries
- Legal rights of disabled prisoners
- Mail – privileged and nonprivileged mail
- Medical, dental and mental health care
- Restrictions on visitation
- Pregnancy related health care
- Prison Litigation Reform Act
- Prisoner transfers
- LGBTIQ
- Entering into a Hawaii civil union: here’s how it works, what it means and how to do it!
- Gender designations on Birth Certificates and Other Government-Issued IDs in Hawaii
- “Protecting the Rights of Transgender Parents and their Children: A Guide for Parents and Lawyers,” <http://www.aclu.org/transgender-parent-guide>
- June 2013: National Center for Transgender Equality has published “Transgender People and the Social Security Administration,” a step-by-step guide to updating your Social Security records.
- MEDICAL MARIJUANA
- Guidelines for accessing Hawaiiʻs Medical Marijuana Program: http://dpfhi.org/medical-marijuana-key-resources/
- POLICE & LAW ENFORCEMENT ENCOUNTERS
- Your rights in Hawaii when encountering law enforcement (adults 18 years and older)
- Your rights in Hawaii went encountering law enforcement (youth up to 18 years old).
- Your right to document law enforcement interactions in Hawaii (video, 1 hour, 2010)
- Your right to document law enforcement interactions in Hawaii (text)
- National: Know Your Rights – Photographers: Your right to record interactions with police. http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/know-your-rights-photographers
- National: 10 Rules for Dealing with Police: http://www.flexyourrights.org/10-rules/
- National: the right to counsel: http://gideonat50.org/
- PRIVACY
- Hawaii Law Limits When Businesses can Swipe the Barcode on Your ID Card
- License Plate scanners – privacy issues: http://acluhawaii.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/alpr_color2.pdf
- License Plate scanners – privacy issues: http://www.aclu.org/plates
- “Smart Meters & Smart Grid” electrical technology – privacy issues: http://acluhi.org/2012/01/11/know-your-rights-new-electrical-smart-grids-raise-privacy-concerns/
- VOTING
- http://acluhi.org/2012/10/01/let-me-vote/. Includes the voting rights of the homeless, incarcerated and transgendered persons in Hawaii.
- YOUTH
- Your rights in Hawaii went encountering law enforcement (youth up to 18 years old).
- The rights of homeless children to public school services (the McKinney Vento Act): www.ed.gov/programs/homeless/guidance.pdf
- Title IX – Sex discrimination in education: Hawaii resources
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