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Funding Fight Slows Action On Police, Prison Reform - Honolulu Civil Beat
Funding Fight Slows Action On Police, Prison Reform
The fate of two state boards tasked with standardizing police practices and reforming the jail system depends on agreement between the Legislature and Gov. David Ige. Reading time: 8 minutes.
Two cash-strapped state panels one to create and enforce standards for police and the other to oversee Hawaii’s jails and prisons are facing more roadblocks this year in trying to accomplish their missions.
The Law Enforcement Standards Board and the Hawaii Correctional Systems Oversight Commission were expecting a big fight for money this legislative session. Both blame insufficient resources for the lack of progress they have made in the goals set forth by the Hawaii Legislature.
Youth Correctional Facility Managers Receive Ethics Fines - Honolulu Civil Beat
Mark Patterson and Darrell Bueno violated the state’s Fair Treatment Law. Reading time: 1 minute.
Mark Patterson, administrator of the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility in Kailua, and institutional facility superintendent Darrell Bueno were fined last week by the Hawaii State Ethics Commission.
Patterson misused state resources and time to benefit a private religious group by allowing it to store trailers with equipment on HYCF property from 2018 to 2020. The trailers have since been removed.
Patterson also authorized around 2019 a subordinate employee to use an HYCF tractor to mow or clear a private pasture in preparation for a fundraising rodeo event for a private nonprofit with ties to HYCF.
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HONOLULU - Hawaii Gov. David Ige has again decided not to approve funds that would have allowed the all-volunteer Hawaii Correctional Systems Oversight Commission hire paid staff members.
Ige declined last year to release $330,000 in funding to hire staff for the five-member committee, which oversees the state Department of Public Safety, the Honolulu Styar-Advertiser reported on Monday.
The commission was approved by the Legislature two years ago in what was initially hailed as major corrections reform.
The commission was given the power to inspect and monitor correctional facilities, investigate complaints, report findings to the public and come up with ideas for reforms.