The commission known as PACE was formed through the adoption of a Hawaii Supreme Court rule earlier this year, incidentally, a day after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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HSJ NEWS RELEASE: HAWAII TASK FORCE RECOMMENDS PLAN OF ACTION FOR IMPROVING LAWYER WELL-BEING
Posted on Jun 1, 2021 in Latest News, Newsroom
The task was formed in May 2019 by Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald in response to a National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being report entitled, “The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change.”
The Hawaii Task Force was asked “to review the recommendations of the National Task Force on how to address lawyer well-being issues, assess which recommendations can be implemented to address the unique needs of Hawaii’s legal community, and recommend how those proposals can best be implemented.”
Hawaii Supreme Court Ends Early Release Of Inmates - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii Supreme Court Ends Early Release Of Inmates
State public defenders can still petition the courts to release clients early, but attorneys will have to do so on an individual basis. Reading time: 7 minutes.
The Hawaii Supreme Court on Friday ended a program for the early release of inmates from jail as part of an effort that began last year to control the spread of COVID-19 in state correctional facilities.
The high court said in a three-page ruling that the program is no longer needed because the state Department of Public Safety, which oversees the corrections systems, has begun a vaccination program and has also implemented COVID-19 testing and safety measures. The court also noted the drop in positive cases in the jail system.
Kahuku Wind Farm Case Goes Before Hawaii Supreme Court - Honolulu Civil Beat
Kahuku Wind Farm Case Goes Before Hawaii Supreme Court
The oral arguments Thursday were the first of three Hawaii’s highest court will hear involving renewable energy projects. Reading time: 5 minutes.
The fate of dozens of endangered hoary bats was at the center of state Supreme Court arguments on Thursday in a case that could stall the operations of a controversial wind farm in Kahuku and raise the stakes for other renewable energy projects in Hawaii.
The legal challenge was the latest manifestation of growing community opposition to the positioning of clean-energy projects, including the Na Pua Makani wind farm on Oahu’s North Shore and the Hu Honua bioenergy plant on the Big Island.
Panel: Hawaii Justice System Needs Better Data Collection - Honolulu Civil Beat
Panel: Hawaii Justice System Needs Better Data Collection
Government agencies also need to get better at sharing their data, including information on arrests and demographics, experts say. Reading time: 4 minutes.
Hawaii needs to collect more and better data, share that data between agencies, and actually start implementing policy proposals on reducing prison populations if it ever hopes to make meaningful reforms to the state’s criminal justice system.
Those are some of the major takeaways from an hour-long panel discussion, the second in a series from the state Judiciary titled “Confronting Racial Injustice.” Panelists during Friday’s event included Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm, Erin Harbinson, the executive director of the Criminal Justice Research Institute and RaeDeen Keahiolalo, the principal of Magma LLC.