(a) Upon an application for an order authorizing the installation and use of a pen register or a trap and trace device, the designated judge shall satisfy itself that there are sufficient facts and circumstances contained within the application that there is probable cause to believe that the information to be obtained through the installation and use of a pen register or a trap and trace device will constitute the fruits, instrumentalities, or evidence of a crime or is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 803-44.6

  • Designated judge: means a circuit court judge designated by the chief justice of the Hawaii supreme court to issue orders under this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 803-41
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Pen register: means a device that records or decodes electronic or other impulses that identify the numbers dialed or otherwise transmitted on the telephone line or cellular network to which the device is connected, or that identifies the numbers that a device uses to connect to a wire or electronic communications service, but the term does not include any device used by a provider or customer of a wire or electronic communication service for billing, or recording as an incident to billing, for communication services provided by the provider or any device used by a provider or customer of a wire communication service for cost accounting or other similar purposes in the ordinary course of its business. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 803-41
  • Person: means any official, employee, or agent of the United States or this State or political subdivision thereof, and any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, or corporation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 803-41
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Trap and trace device: means a device that captures the incoming electronic or other impulses that identify the originating number of an instrument or device from which a wire or electronic communication was transmitted. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 803-41
  • wire communication: includes , but is not limited to, cellular telephones, cordless telephones, "tone and voice" pagers which transmit a voice message along with a paging signal, and any electronic storage of a wire communication. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 803-41
(b) If the designated judge is so satisfied, the order issued shall specify:

(1) The identity, if known, of the person to whom is leased or in whose name is listed the telephone line, cellular telephone, or electronic device or service to which the pen register or trap and trace device is to be attached;
(2) The identity, if known, of the person who is the subject of the criminal investigation;
(3) The number and, if known, the physical location of the telephone line, cellular telephone, or electronic device or service to which the pen register or the trap and trace device is to be attached, and, in the case of a trap and trace device, the geographical limits of the trap and trace order;
(4) A statement of the offense to which the information likely to be obtained by the pen register or trap and trace device relates; and
(5) Upon the request of the applicant, the information, facilities, and technical assistance necessary to accomplish the installation of the pen register or trap and trace device that the provider of wire communication service is directed to furnish to the applicant.
(c) An order authorizing installation and use of a pen register or a trap and trace device shall be for a period not to exceed sixty days. Extension of an order may be granted, but only upon a reapplication for an order and a finding of probable cause to justify continuing use of a pen register or trap and trace device. The period of the extension shall be for a period not to exceed sixty days.
(d) An order authorizing the installation and use of a pen register or a trap and trace device shall direct that:

(1) The order be sealed until otherwise ordered by the court; and
(2) The person owning or leasing the telephone line, cellular telephone, or electronic device or service to which the pen register or trap and trace device is attached, or who has been ordered by the court to provide assistance to the applicant, not disclose the existence of the pen register or trap and trace device or the existence of the investigation to the listed subscriber or to any other person, unless otherwise ordered by the court.
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