STAND. COM. REP. NO. 825

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 386

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 386 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SAFETY OF JUDICIARY PERSONNEL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit online posting of the personal information of state and federal judges and other judicial staff with the intent to intimidate or threaten injury, harm, or violence, or when the information would expose them to harassment or risk of harm to life or property.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary, State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers, and Hawaii State Bar Association.

Your Committee finds that over the past decade, judges and court personnel in Hawaii have received an increasing number of threats and inappropriate communications. To minimize the risk of threats or violence to these individuals, your Committee believes that posting the personal information of federal and state judges and other judicial staff with the intent to intimidate or threaten injury, harm, or violence should be prohibited.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Prohibiting, in certain circumstances, the publication of the personal information of sitting, full-time judges of the Hawaii State Circuit Family Court and District Family Court; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 386, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 386, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair