Volunteer sleuths are tracking down people who break Hawaii's two-week quarantine order on travelers.
ABC News’ Kaylee Hartung reports on how states are dealing with record numbers of cases, with some businesses in Texas requiring masks.HONOLULU -- Former longtime television reporter Angela Keen knows how to track people down.pandemic, she’s putting her skills to use finding tourists who defy Hawaii's mandatory two-week quarantine on arriving travelers.
“I start doing a deeper search with my reporter skills and try to dig things up to say, ‘Are they a risk? ... Do they come from a hot spot?'” said Keen, who was recently working in communications. Residents helping bring violators to justice is a unique approach to enforcing a quarantine requirement meant to contain the coronavirus, which could spread quickly on the islands if travelers bring it in and pose a threat to Hawaii's limited medical resources. While cases are surging in some states, the quarantine has helped Hawaii maintain some of the nation's lowest COVID-19 infection and mortality rates.
“I tracked him for 14 days,” Keen said. Members didn't call him out on his posts to ensure he wouldn't know they were on to him, and they passed along the information they got to investigators. The group also tracked down visitors who had rented a Mustang through a company that loans out private owners' vehicles. When arriving at the airport, they listed the car owner's address as where they would spend quarantine, but the group found them at a short-term vacation rental in Waikiki.“So they left before the investigators could get to them and they shut down their accounts," Keen said. “They went dark.
“But we don’t want that right now because it’s a risk for all of us," she said, pointing especially to Native Hawaiians and their history with Europeans bringing deadly illnesses. “They are the most precious part of Hawaii. And we want them to be around for a long time.”
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