2/3/2012 House Judiciary Committee

On Friday, February 3, 2012 at 2:00 P.M., before the House Judiciary Committee, we (Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu) testified in support of our bills: House Bill 1777 that allows district court and circuit court judges to order the production of records by persons or entities located outside of the State of Hawaii, in all criminal cases. Requires that anyone in Hawaii served with criminal process from another state must comply with the criminal process; House Bill 1776 that allows electronic communication service providers to voluntarily disclose electronic communications to a governmental agency where an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires such disclosure without delay; and House Bill 1778 that increases unauthorized computer access in the first degree to a class A felony, increases unauthorized computer access in the second degree to a class B felony, and increases unauthorized computer access in the third degree to a class C felony, and where unauthorized computer access in the first degree is charged based on the monetary value of information obtained, the minimum monetary value was raised to $20,000.