ROH §4-6.2

Real-time captioning of televised council meetings

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This section requires the city council to provide real-time captions for televised regular council meetings, and allows the council chair to decide whether to caption other televised meetings. Captions must show what each speaker says and appear on properly equipped TVs. The council must put captioning rules in its broadcast contracts and run a pilot program before full implementation.

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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Real-time captioning of televised council or committee meeting

A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.

(a) Subject to this article, the council: (1) Shall provide for the real-time captioning of each televised regular council meeting; and (2) May provide for the real-time captioning of any other televised council or committee meeting at the discretion of the council chair. (b) The real-time captioning provided pursuant to this section shall: (1) Transcribe the spoken words of each participant at the televised council or committee meeting; and (2) Be visible on all properly equipped televisions tuned to the televised council or committee meeting. (c) The council shall include terms and conditions to implement this section in each contract with a person responsible for the broadcast production of televised council and committee meetings. (d) This section shall not be construed as requiring: (1) The real-time captioning of any council or committee meeting that is not televised; or (2) The real-time captioning of any portion of a council or committee meeting televised under a noncouncil broadcast production. (e) The council shall conduct a pilot program of the real-time captioning of selected televised council and committee meetings. The purpose of the pilot program shall be to discover and then correct problems associated with real-time captioning before full implementation. The council shall review the pilot program and, if necessary, modify this article and the real-time captioning to be provided. Full implementation of real-time captioning in accordance with this section shall be initiated upon adoption by the council of an authorizing resolution.

Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗as published Jan 1, 2026our copy taken Aug 22, 2026

Published by the City and County of Honolulu through American Legal Publishing.

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