Bill Text: HI SB212 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Safety; Freedom of Information; Out-of-State Prisons

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB212 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB212-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1053

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 212

      S.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred S.B. No. 212, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure the safe and fair treatment of inmates housed in mainland correctional facilities by requiring privately owned prisons or out-of-state detention facilities holding prisoners under a contract with the State to follow the state freedom of information laws.

 

     The Community Alliance on Prisons, Drug Policy Forum, and two concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Office of Information Practices supported the intent of this measure.  The Office of the Governor and Department of Public Safety opposed this bill.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 212, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair