Daily Archives: February 25, 2013

On Sunday, February 24, 2013 from 10:00 A.M., for the Honolulu Jodo Shu Fujinkai service and membership meeting, I made a welcome speech. After we had a New Year’s party.

On Friday, February 22, 2013 at 2:00 P.M. before the House Judiciary Committee, I testified in support of HB 411 HD1 that establishes a new part in chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to ensure that sexual assault victims are provided with medically and factually unbiased information about and access to emergency contraception when receiving emergency medical care at Hawaii’s hospitals.

At about 12:30 P.M., Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Tricia Nakamatsu and I had lunch with Maui Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Richard Minatoya.

In the evening, I socialized with Honolulu Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys in the Traffic and Misdemeanor Division of the department at Indigo Restaurant.

On Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 2:00 P.M. before the House Judiciary Committee, I had testimony in support of HB1066 that makes solicitation of a minor for prostitution a crime; increases the statute of limitations to bring a cause of action for coercion into prostitution from two to six years; clarifies the minimum and maximum fine for a person convicted of committing the offense of prostitution; adds the offenses of solicitation of a minor for prostitution, habitual solicitation of prostitution, and solicitation of prostitution near schools and public parks under the State’s forfeiture laws; and amends the definition of “sexual offense” under the sexual offender registry laws to include acts that consist of the solicitation of a minor who is less than eighteen years of age for prostitution.

I also had testimony in support of HB783, HD1 that includes law enforcement officers among persons having a direct and tangible interest in public health statistics records to facilitate their inspection and acquisition of such records for criminal investigations. This is a Law Enforcement Coalition bill.

Lastly, I had testimony in support of HB785 that amends provisions of Act 325, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, which allow for the service of process issued by another state upon a Hawaii recipient and clarifies the following: (1) that the service of process may be upon a person or business, but not a government agency; (2) that the process is for the production of records; (3) that the process must be based upon a pending criminal investigation or prosecution; and (4) that the person or business being served must have conducted business or engaged in transactions occurring at least in part in the issuing state. This is a Law Enforcement Coalition bill that amends our 2012 law that was in our 2012 Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Legislative Package.