(a) The department of the attorney general shall be responsible for the collection, storage, dissemination, and analysis of all hate crime data from all agencies that have primary investigative, action, or program responsibility for adult or juvenile offenses, including the county police departments, the county prosecutors, the family courts, and the departments or agencies responsible for administering any correctional facilities.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 846-52

  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • Hate crime: means any criminal act in which the perpetrator intentionally selected a victim, or in the case of a property crime, the property that was the object of a crime, because of hostility toward the actual or perceived race, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation of any person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 846-51
  • Hate crime data: means information, incident reports, records, and statistics relating to hate crimes, collected by the attorney general. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 846-51
(b) The attorney general shall develop the system and the procedures for reporting, inputting, accessing, and protecting the information concerning the commission of hate crimes and obtaining the agreement of agencies permitted to directly input and access information.
(c) Hate crime data collected by the attorney general may be shared with other agencies in accordance with § 92F-19. Public dissemination of this information shall be subject to section 92F-13.

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