HRS §577-20
Police help removing school children from public places
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says that if a business owner listed in another law can't get school children to leave, they can call the police. The police must first tell the children to go home. If they don't, the police can arrest them, following juvenile court rules.
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The statute, as written — Arrest, when in such places
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
If any keeper of any of the public places enumerated in section 577-19 finds difficulty in clearing the keeper's premises of school children, the keeper may call in the assistance of the police, who shall first order all such school children to return to their homes; and, if the order is not obeyed by the children, the police shall, subject to chapter 571, proceed to apprehend all children who have not proceeded to their homes.
Sections this one refers to
§577-19 Children under 16 in certain public places
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