Agencies that have investigative, detention, custodial, adjudicative, or program responsibility for adult or juvenile offenses shall cooperate with the attorney general in establishing the hate crime reporting system by:

(1) Providing information in the agency files that can be included pursuant to the format approved by the attorney general;

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 846-53

  • 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
(2) Maintaining procedures internally consistent with uniform procedures and guidelines provided by the attorney general;
(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.

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