Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1984, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require a review committee of the judicial council to investigate the current status of internet access to criminal conviction data.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, the Community Alliance on Prisons, and an individual. The Attorney General submitted testimony in opposition to the measure.

Your Committee finds that a review committee is necessary to examine the methods of collecting, and the sources of, conviction data that is made available on the Internet. A review committee is also necessary to examine whether further limitations on internet access to conviction data is necessary to ensure its proper use for promoting public safety.

Your Committee has amended this measure to:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1984, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1984, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.