Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1107, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to:

(1) Redefine the offense of disorderly conduct; and

The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu and the Honolulu Police Department testified in support of this bill. The Office of the Public Defender expressed concerns.

Your Committee finds that advancement in technology has provided opportunity for "video voyeurism" in public places. A change in the offense of violation of privacy will address the growing concern for the offensive practice of "upskirt photography."

Your Committee has amended this bill by requiring that covert recordings and broadcasting be prohibited.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1107, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1107,

S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.