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HRS §846D-3

Agencies must help build the juvenile justice database

Agencies that work with juveniles in investigations, detention, custody, court, or programs must cooperate with the attorney general to set up a juvenile justice information system. They must share certain files, follow uniform rules, report events accurately and on time, and check their records to avoid errors.

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The statute, as written — Responsibility of agencies

Agencies that have investigative, detention, custodial, adjudicative, and program responsibility for juveniles shall cooperate with the attorney general in establishing the juvenile justice information system by: (1) Providing information in the agency files that can be included pursuant to the format approved by the juvenile justice information committee; (2) Maintaining procedures internally consistent with uniform procedures and guidelines provided by the juvenile justice information committee; (3) Reporting information to the attorney general that is timely, complete, and accurate, after the occurrence of an event over which the agency had direct responsibility; and (4) Maintaining procedures for the periodic checking of information to minimize the possibility of storing and maintaining inaccurate information.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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