The Hopi Tribal Court extends its gratitude to the Hopi communities for accepting court referred community service workers or because you have expressed an interest in participating in the Hopi Tribal Court's Community Service Work Program.

The Hopi Tribal Court's Community Service Work Program provides a meaningful alternative to a jail sentence or a court fine. Individuals who commit non-violent and non-dangerous crimes have the option of settling their crime by working for Hopi and other communities through the community service work program.

Reports from individuals who have participated in the Hopi Tribal Court's Community Service Work Program and from community service work agencies have been overwhelmingly positive. Non-profit Hopi agencies, Hopi villages and communities have benefited tremendously from the services provided by the community service workers.

An individual may request to the court to be placed in the community service work program before they are sentenced. After an individual is accepted into the community service work program, the Hopi Tribal Court or its authorized representative will explain the community service work program and the rules of the program outlined below.

Program rules prohibit community service workers from selecting or choosing for whom they perform work.  The community service work agency assigns workers to assist non-profit agencies or village/communities or members who are elderly or disabled and who live alone. The community service worker may not work for a family member, the worker's friends, for groups engaged in fund raising activities, or for a for-profit business.The community service worker shall not be compensated by the community service agency or by groups or individuals for which community service work has been performed.

The worker is instructed to select a community service work agency from the courts' approved list and report to that agency to begin work.  Upon agency acceptance, the worker provides the agency with the community service work report documents, a copy of the waiverof liability and a copy of his/her judgment.  The agency records the number of hours the worker has worked each day until he or she has completed the required number of community service work hours.  Following satisfactory completion of the work, the agency supervisor or representative verifies that the worker has completed his/her obligation by signing the report document, which the worker submits to the court at their sentencing hearing.
 
Individuals sign a waiver of liability following their decision to participate in the community services work program, in which the worker agrees not to sue the Hopi Courts, the Hopi Indian Tribe or any agency connected to the community work service program should they suffer any type of injury or fatality during the program.  Participation in the program is a choice; individuals who refuse to sign the waiver of liability are ineligible.