Department Of Public Safety
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Recidivism Prevention. [HB-2310]
Establishes within the judiciary a five-year recidivism prevention pilot program consisting of three components: a housing voucher program, child care voucher program, and income tax credit for employers to assist the reentry efforts of certain individuals who exited the Women's Community Correctional Center, for two years after the exit. Establishes five transition navigator positions within the judiciary. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. Repeals 7/1/27. (HD1)
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Relating To Reentry Planning Circles. [HB-2257]
Appropriates moneys to fund reentry planning circles for incarcerated women. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To The Comprehensive Offender Reentry System. [HB-2169]
Clarifies that the Department of Public Safety's role is to work with the Department of Transportation and county examiners of drivers to assist inmates in obtaining civil identification cards necessary to transition into the workforce, access social services, and secure housing, rather than issue civil identification cards. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To The Enforcement Of Laws. [SB-3194]
Establishes an expeditious adjudication system for the processing of fireworks infractions. Increases the fine for certain fireworks violations. Clarifies what constitutes a separate violation. Increases the penalty for removing or extracting pyrotechnic contents. Authorizes the sheriff division to enforce the fireworks control law. Requires the attorney general to establish an explosion detection technology working group. Requires the department of public safety to develop and implement a web-based reporting tool for illegal fireworks. Appropriates
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Native Hawaiian Rehabilitation Programs. [SB-2770]
Requires the department of public safety, in collaboration with the office of Hawaiian affairs, to create a Native Hawaiian rehabilitation program for prison inmates that emphasizes Native Hawaiian values and cultural practices. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Searches Of Female Inmates. [SB-2777]
Prohibits male correctional facility employees from conducting pat down searches of female inmates or entering areas where female inmates may be in a state of undress for the purpose of conducting a search, subject to exceptions. Requires exceptions to be documented, reviewed, and retained for reporting purposes. Requires PSD to increase its recruitment and training of female adult corrections officers and address certain concerns, federal requirements, and staffing shortages. Requires PSD to submit a report on its efforts. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Risk And Needs Assessment For Female Offenders. [SB-2771]
Requires the department of public safety to develop a pretrial female risk and needs assessments tool and conduct internal female risk and needs assessments to measure female offenders' risk of flight, reoffending, or harm to the community. Requires the pretrial female risk and needs assessment tool to consider factors important to women when considering their risks of reoffending and their treatment needs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Women's Community Correctional Center. [SB-2774]
Appropriates funds for reentry planning circles for incarcerated women. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Recidivism Prevention. [SB-2775]
Establishes within the Department of Public Safety Reentry Office, a 5-year Recidivism Prevention Pilot Program, consisting of three components: the housing voucher program, child care voucher program, and income tax credit for employers to assist the reentry efforts of certain individuals who exited from the Women's Community Correctional Center, for two years after the exit. Establishes five Transition Navigator positions (5.00 FTE) within the Department of Public Safety Reentry Office. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Educational Programs. [SB-2773]
Appropriates funds to extend the higher and continuing education program at women's community correctional center to support. Provides funding for incarcerated women to become general education development (GED) tutors to peers, college correspondence courses, re-entry and transitional services, and continuation of the program at Windward Community College.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Prison Reform. [SB-2776]
Establishes the Women's Corrections Implementation Commission in the Judiciary to ensure implementation of the recommendations from the final report from the House Concurrent Resolution No. 85 (2016) task force, to develop and implement an evidence-based, gender-responsive plan to divert non-violent women offenders, especially those with minor children, from the criminal justice system. Requires that the task force also consider model programs including residential, in-person and community-based rehabilitation programs, supportive and subsidized
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Furlough And Drug Treatment Programs. [SB-2772]
Appropriates funds to the judiciary for residential drug treatment, therapeutic living, and mental health programs for judiciary-involved women. Appropriates funds to the department of public safety to expand existing community-based furlough programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Incarcerated Women. [SB-2640]
Appropriates funds for the second year of the program to train incarcerated women to be general education development tutors for their peers, provide college correspondence courses for women in the women's community correctional center, and provide reentry and transition services for women wanting to continue their education post-incarceration. Authorizes partnerships between the department of education, University of Hawaii, and department of public safety. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Public Safety. [SB-2637]
Mandates that there be a community-based work furlough program for incarcerated women in the State. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Children And Family Of Incarcerated Individuals. [HB-1741]
Requires the department of human services to work with the department of public safety, family reunification working group, and other entities serving children and families affected by parental incarceration to establish a pilot visitation and family resource center at Waiawa correctional facility on Oahu whose staff includes trauma-informed professionals who serve as liaisons and hookele for families affected by incarceration. Requires the department of human services to continue to lead a working group to address visitation and support needs of
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Fireworks. [SB-2426]
Establishes the illegal fireworks task force within the Department of Public Safety to regulate and control the spread of illegal fireworks in the State. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Offender Reentry Programs. [SB-2433]
Requires the Department of Public Safety to expand existing model programs to make more quality correctional education courses available to interested inmates. Requires the Department of Public Safety to reward inmates who participate in or complete correctional education programs while incarcerated with subsidized health insurance, housing, or tuition after release. Expands existing vocational and work furlough programs and establishes earn and learn apprenticeships which allow eligible inmates to work towards licensure under supervised apprenticeships
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Social Work. [SB-2375]
Requires the department of public safety, in collaboration with the department of human services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social work. Requires progress reports on the program to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Children And Family Of Incarcerated Individuals. [SB-2306]
Requires the Department of Human Services to work with the Department of Public Safety to establish a pilot visitation and family resource center at Waiawa correctional facility. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Correctional Facilities. [SB-2269]
Repeals the authorization for the Governor to negotiate with any person for the development or expansion of private in-state correctional facilities. Prohibits the establishment of private correctional facilities within the State. Allows the Governor to enter into a contract with a private entity to construct correctional facilities on public or private lands for the benefit of the State if the facilities are owned and operated by the Department of Public Safety. Repeals the authorization of the Governor to enter into a contract with a private entity
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