STAND. COM. REP. NO. 21

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 210

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 210 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA SHARING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a criminal justice data sharing working group to make recommendations for a statewide criminal justice data repository to:

(1) Facilitate collaborative decision-making, coordinated planning, and cooperative implementation among criminal justice agencies and relevant partners;

(2) Support the fair, efficient, and effective operation of the criminal justice system;

(3) Promote interoperability through the use of common elements;

(4) Allow agencies to securely and efficiently share appropriate information; and

(5) Support criminal justice and other purposes, including improved public safety and homeland security, while respecting the privacy of citizens.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Department of Law Enforcement, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, and Women's Prison Project. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, Legislative Reference Bureau, and Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest.

Your Committee finds that the State lacks a common repository for tracking data related to the criminal justice system. All state and county criminal justice agencies plan, design, procure, implement, and operate their own separate information systems. As such, data sharing consists of one-off solutions, often requiring grants and outside contractors. Your Committee believes that a statewide criminal justice information system is needed to increase efficiency, support criminal justice, and improve public safety and homeland security. This measure will promote the fair, efficient, and effective operation of the criminal justice system by establishing a criminal justice data sharing working group to make recommendations for a statewide criminal justice data repository.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Specifying that the Attorney General, or the Attorney General's designee, shall serve as chairperson of the working group;

(2) Limiting the assistance the Legislative Reference Bureau provides to the working group to drafting assistance; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 210, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 210, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means.

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

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair