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MS. HUNT: But the right not to speak? How about to be able to speak to certain people <br />and not others? <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: Now that’s a different thing. <br /> <br />MS. HUNT: Right. <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: I’m just saying there is a First Amendment right not to speak as well <br />as to speak, all right? <br /> <br />MS. HUNT: It’s a real balancing act. I’m bringing this forward to you because, like I <br />said before, I’ve never really encountered this in my years of reporting in Hawai‘i <br />County. <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: That’s the next question I was going to ask you. Do you feel that the <br />respondent in this case that you filed a complaint, that she targeted you specifically in <br />this? <br /> <br />MS. HUNT: Well, I think that’s where we were getting at with the media notification <br />form, that we wanted to probe that. I don’t know. All I know is my particular experience, <br />and then in conferring with a few friends, how they were also not— <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: So other people had the same experience you did, then? <br /> <br />MS. HUNT: Most notably were David Corrigan and Sherry Bracken. <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: But they’re not here to testify, are they? <br /> <br />MS. HUNT: No. <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: The reason I say that, because in that concept of not to speak, I don’t <br />think we as persons in the government, representing the government, can tell someone <br />when they have to speak and when they don’t have to speak, or control when they speak <br />and they don’t speak. But I think that we can go forward and look into whether there’s <br />been any—that you were centered in any way, or any of this was directed at you <br />personally. And if that was, then I think we have a duty to look into that and see if you <br />were treated unfairly in that manner. Do you understand what I’m saying? <br /> <br />MS. HUNT: I understand what you’re saying— <br /> <br />MS. HENRICKS: --You as a person, not as a group. I don’t want to be involved in <br />controlling the media at all from this panel. You understand what I’m saying? In either <br />way, pro or con, I don’t want to control the media in any way. But what’s put to the <br />media, or directed to you, I can see that you may have a proper complaint. You <br />understand that? <br /> <br />10 <br /> <br />