Federal judge in Hawaii allows one-time live blogging
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July 28, 2011
Hawaii: This week, Judge Susan Oki Mollway, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, granted a journalist permission to bring a laptop into court when covering a trial. Mollway said that she was willing to allow one journalist to use the media because one person can be easily monitored. The rules are: everything transmitted from the live blogging must be available to other news sites, no audio or video may be recorded, and the laptop cannot become a distraction. The marks the first time a computer will be used by a member of the media in that court.[1]
The trial in question begins next Wednesday and concerns two business owners accused of keeping Thai immigrants as indentured servants.[1]
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