Hawai'i State Bar Association

110 Alakea Street
Suite 1000
Honolulu, HI 96813
United States

http://www.hsba.org

The Hawai'i State Bar Association started out as a voluntary organization in 1899 and became formally designated a mandatory unified bar for members of the legal profession in 1989. Their mission is to promote justice, serve the public, and improve the legal profession using seven goals, including maintaining an effective organizational structure, promoting the integrity of Hawai'ian lawyers, eliminating prejudice. educating the public about issues such as their legal rights, increasing the availability of quality legal services to everyone, advancing the equitable and efficient administration of justice, and recognizing the needs of lawyers on each island.

Hawai'i State Bar Association is not in compliance with the nationwide, public-facing, Brady List; or:

Supreme Court of the United States [SCOTUS] Brady doctrine (1963);
US Freedom of Information Act (1967);
State Sunshine Law (see, below);
Open Government Act (2007);
Open Government Initiative (2009); and,
Open Government Directives (2009) issued by the United States Department of Justice.

This information has been curated by journalists and private citizens; and, this platform is available as-a-service to all Peace Officer Standards & Training [POST] Departments, Prosecutors, and Law Enforcement Organizations [LEOrgs].

Our Priorities

Ensure enforcement discretion. The Brady List does not apply Machine Learning [ML], Artificial Intelligence [AI], or any other coded mechanism.
Empower prosecutorial disclosure. This Brady List as a platform automates the compilation of data across entire jurisdictions for prosecutors.
Enable judicial oversight. This Brady List platform is the first of its kind to serve the judiciary as a method to ensure delivery of Brady Material Disclosures.
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In order to provide this service to 20,000+ Organizations, POST Departments, and Prosecutors nationwide. We have standardized the input, date and time stamped the output, incorporated an epistemology of Brady Offenses, Public Complaints, and Use-of-Force Reports.

Uniform Information Practices Act

Haw. Rev. Stat. §91-1 et seq.

The Hawai'i Uniform Information Practices Act, established in 1975, is the law that governs access to public records. Records include all materials maintained in government offices and agencies including all records whether they be written, auditory, visual, electronic, or other physical form. Exemptions of this act are records that constitute an invasion of privacy, records of current judicial proceeding of which the agency receiving the request is a part, and confidential government records, inchoate and draft working papers of legislative committees including budget worksheets and unfiled committee reports.

Anyone can request public records and Hawai'ian law does not require a statement of purpose. There are no restrictions on how the public records are used. Allow up to ten days for a response to public records.

We the People

We the People have a Right to Know according to the Supreme Court of the United States [SCOTUS], past Presidents (of both major political parties), Congress, and the United States Department of Justice. As an expression of that Right to Know, we have coordinated valuable information from a number of resources into a single, public-facing, searchable database.

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