ACLU of Hawaii demands reform following allegations that a then-10-year-old girl and her mother were discriminated against and had their rights violated last year.
The ACLU of Hawaii is demanding the state’s education department and Honolulu police adopt immediate reforms following allegations that a then-10-year-old girl and her mother were discriminated against and had their rights violated last year.
The Hawaii Department of Education said it does not comment on pending or active litigation, and the Honolulu Police Department said its representatives are reviewing the letter and working with legal counsel to respond. That morning, a vice principal called Taylor and asked her to come to the school, saying her daughter was involved in a dispute. The administrator told Taylor that the school was “thinking about calling the police,” the ACLU letter said.A Honolulu police officer met Taylor when she arrived, according to the letter, which alleges that Taylor was detained in a room and prevented from seeing her daughter while N.B. was interrogated by police and school staff.
The letter states that Taylor saw her daughter driven away in a police car and yelled,"No! What did you just do? Bring her back here! You’ve just violated our rights!” In conversations with an officer and a school administrator, respectively, Taylor was told her daughter was taken to the police station because they didn't want her to hit N.B. at school, and that administrators felt they needed to keep mother and daughter separated because they saw “fire” in Taylor’s eyes, according to the ACLU letter. The letter describes both as prejudiced and “baseless assumptions.
In May 2020, Taylor also delivered a complaint to the Honolulu Police Department against the three officers who were on-site that day.
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