Are you interested in the current trial of Mike Miske, the former owner of Kamaaina Termite and a number of other businesses?

Frustrated by the lack of regular news reporting from the trial?

Here’s your chance to do something about it.

I’m as frustrated as everyone else but, like most people, I’m just not in a position to devote six months to sitting through daily court sessions. And the sad fact is that no news organization in Hawaii has the resources to provide day-to-day reporting on the trial.

Is crowdsoursing the answer? Could we split up the work and make it happen?

The question is simple. Are there enough people willing to commit one or two days a month to observe the trial, take notes, and then share their notes and observations? I could then pull the daily reports together into regular trial updates.

If even just 10 people were intereted, each one would only have to be in court one day every two weeks. But by combining the group’s daily observations, we could dramatically increase available news coverage. It might even prompt the mainstream media to increase their coverage.

The regular trial schedule is 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. daily, Monday through Friday, in the federal court in downtown Honolulu.

Apart from having to go through security to enter the building, it’s prettty simple. To be effective, you have to be able to hear the proceedings, and keep some kind of notes of what’s said by witesses and attorneys.

If you’re potentially interested, or know someone else who might be, please contact me directly and I can provide more detail and answer any questions. You can reach me via email, ilind600@gmail.com, or via secure Proton Mail, ilind600@proton.me.