{"id":1071,"date":"2018-06-03T23:40:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T09:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2018-06-03T23:41:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T09:41:28","slug":"honolulu-authority-for-rapid-transportation-hart-meddles-with-state-auditor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) Meddles With State Auditor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rYzp1TANWn\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/2018\/05\/state-auditor-says-rail-agency-is-interfering-with-his-work\/\">State Auditor Says Rail Agency Is Interfering With His Work<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;State Auditor Says Rail Agency Is Interfering With His Work&#8221; &#8212; Honolulu Civil Beat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/2018\/05\/state-auditor-says-rail-agency-is-interfering-with-his-work\/embed\/#?secret=TPjQdNldE0#?secret=rYzp1TANWn\" data-secret=\"rYzp1TANWn\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/author\/marcelhonore\/\">Marcel Honore<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-bio cb-richtext\">Marcel Honore is a reporter for Civil Beat.<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-bio cb-richtext\">You can email him at <a href=\"mailto:mhonore@civilbeat.org\">mhonore@civilbeat.org<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In blunt public testimony during Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulutransit.org\/\">Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation<\/a> board meeting, Les Kondo said that HART staff members are being required to record their interviews with auditor personnel, then deliver those recordings to HART management to be transcribed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have strong concerns about that. In my opinion, that is akin to management sitting in the interview itself,\u201d Kondo said during his latest surprise appearance at a HART meeting. \u201cBig Brother is there. Big Brother is listening. And whether intended or not, the implication in my opinion to the employees is that they better tow the company line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an audit. It is not litigation. It is not discovery as part of a lawsuit,\u201d he said, adding the recordings are \u201cfrankly unprecedented\u201d for his office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Auditor Says Rail Agency Is Interfering With His Work Marcel Honore Marcel Honore is a reporter for Civil Beat. You can email him at mhonore@civilbeat.org In blunt public testimony during Thursday\u2019s Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation board meeting, Les Kondo said that HART staff members are being required to record their interviews with auditor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}