STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1265

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   S.B. No. 959

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 959, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to decrease the backlog of our warrant system by appropriating funds:

(1)  To establish an automated and centralized warrant management system by the Judiciary and the Department of Public Safety that can be accessed by all law enforcement personnel; and

(2)  For additional sheriff positions and vehicles to be dedicated exclusively to the service and execution of warrants.

     The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu supported this bill.  The Judiciary supported the intent of this measure.  The Department of Public Safety opposed this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by charging the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center of the Department of the Attorney General with establishing the centralized warrant management system.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 959, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 959, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

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CINDY EVANS, Chair