Bill Text: HI HB232 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Safety; Freedom of Information; Out-of-State Prisons

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB232 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB232-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  219

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 232

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 232 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide accountability and transparency with regard to Hawaii prisoners by requiring privately owned prisons and out-of-state detention facilities to comply with state freedom of information laws.

 

     The Drug Policy Forum, American Civil Liberties Union, Community Alliance on Prisons, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Office of Information Practices supported the intent of this measure.  The Department of Public Safety testified in opposition to this bill.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 232 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair