Make Hawaii s Law Enforcement Review Board Permanent - Honolulu Civil Beat
Two recent officer-involved shootings in Honolulu illustrate why an independent and transparent accounting is so necessary.
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This week makes nearly four years since the Hawaii Legislature decided that it was important to have independent investigations of officer-involved deaths. Act 161, as it is now known, passed unanimously and was signed into law by Gov. David Ige.
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State Lottery To Fund Public Education Moves Forward - Honolulu Civil Beat
State Lottery To Fund Public Education Moves Forward
The bill would create a commission to plan for a lottery to help pay for the university and public schools. Reading time: 4 minutes.
Winning final passage may be a long shot, but the Senate Education Committee tentatively approved a plan Wednesday to create a commission to stand up a state lottery to help fund public education in Hawaii.
The lottery could be operating as early as Jan. 1, 2023, but Senate Bill 816 leaves it up to the five-member commission to make rules and determine exactly how the game would be run.
Panel: Hawaii Justice System Needs Better Data Collection - Honolulu Civil Beat
Panel: Hawaii Justice System Needs Better Data Collection
Government agencies also need to get better at sharing their data, including information on arrests and demographics, experts say. Reading time: 4 minutes.
Hawaii needs to collect more and better data, share that data between agencies, and actually start implementing policy proposals on reducing prison populations if it ever hopes to make meaningful reforms to the state’s criminal justice system.
Those are some of the major takeaways from an hour-long panel discussion, the second in a series from the state Judiciary titled “Confronting Racial Injustice.” Panelists during Friday’s event included Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm, Erin Harbinson, the executive director of the Criminal Justice Research Institute and RaeDeen Keahiolalo, the principal of Magma LLC.
Honolulu Judge Drops Charges Against Former Surgeon General for Allegedly Flouting Virus Restrictions
A judge in Honolulu on Wednesday dismissed a case against former Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who faced criminal misdemeanor charges for allegedly violating local COVID-19 restrictions while in Hawaii to help with testing efforts.
The dismissal of charges came on the same day Adams announced that he had been asked by the Biden transition team to resign from his role as surgeon general, and one day after Honolulu prosecutors submitted a motion to dismiss charges against Adams and his aide, Dennis Anderson-Villaluz, for allegedly violating Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s Aug. 18 emergency proclamation, “Act Now Honolulu No Social Gatherings.”