DOT Urged to Provide Drivers Test in Marshallese, Chuukese

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Friday afternoon (July 19), clergy and community leaders delivered a letter to state Department of Transportation Director Glenn Okimoto urging him to include Ilocano, Chuukese and Marshallese as part of the languages for the written Hawaii drivers test.

The letter is signed by 40 Hawaii clergy and 20 organization and agency directors.

Faith Action for Community Equity has been urging translations for more than six months and has requested a meeting with Okimoto.

Read Civil Beat’s story on the drivers tests, Does Hawaii’s Drivers Test Still Disenfranchise Immigrants?, and a related story, Helping Hawaii Make Sense of Micronesia.

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Marshallese and Chuukese women petition the Maui DOT, April 30, 2013.

—Chad Blair

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