STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2337

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2936

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 2936 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Public Safety to form a temporary working group to:

     (1)  Analyze the Capitol District security infrastructure;

     (2)  Develop a plan, including a timeline and funding requirements, to create an integrated camera surveillance system for the Capitol District; and

     (3)  Provide a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2015.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Department of Accounting and General Services, State Office of Information Management and Technology, and one individual.

     Your Committees find that the current security systems in place for facilities in the Capitol District are generally not used to prevent criminal activity from occurring, but are rather a reactionary system.  A working group will evaluate the Capitol District security infrastructure and develop a plan to create an integrated camera surveillance system to assist in the security of the historical Capitol District.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2936 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Technology and the Arts,

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair