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As we were nearing the end of a recent week-long visit to Portland, Oregon, something brought Hawaiʻi’s Office of the Ombudsman to mind.
But I got out of the habit of checking those annual reports a number of years ago, and realized that I haven’t seen or heard much of anything about the ombudsman in a long time…