Support Our Work to Protect Civil Liberties in Hawai‘i

This paper responds to community requests for the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai‘i to outline the statutory and constitutional limits on the United States (“U.S.”) military and State of Hawaiʻi with respect to decision making over Public Land Trust lands currently under military lease. This includes, but is not limited to, duties related to the unrelinquished claims of Native Hawaiians with respect to the Hawaiian Kingdom lands currently recognized as the Public Land Trust under state and U.S. federal law.

Since the ACLU of Hawaiʻi was founded in 1965, volunteer attorneys have been critical to our work. In our early years, we had no paid staff attorneys, meaning every lawsuit depended on volunteers.

Justices weigh whether refusing a voluntary roadside test can be used as evidence of guilt

The Reimagining Public Safety in Hawaiʻi Coalition is a diverse group of Hawaiʻi based organizations and everyday residents that bring both lived experience and expertise from a range of sectors including public health, the criminal legal system, economic revitalization, restorative justice, police oversight and accountability, mental health, street medicine and harm reduction, among others.