HI SCR170

Urges law enforcement agencies to monitor parks and other areas near schools during school hours to identify individuals who may be students and enforce Hawaii's truancy law under section 302A-1132.

Identifies truancy as a warning sign for delinquent activity, social isolation, educational failure, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and dropping out of school.

Notes that high school dropouts cost the government more than $200,000 over their lifetime in government-funded social services compared to high school graduates.

References a 2009 Working Group on Truancy Rate Reduction that recommended law enforcement collaboration with schools to reduce truancy rates.

Requires certified copies of the resolution to be transmitted to the Superintendent of Education and chiefs of police of each county.