S.R. No. 85 Summary

• Urges the Department of Public Safety to increase investment in comprehensive offender reentry programs for individuals exiting correctional facilities.

• Encourages the department to maintain existing reentry services and funding during the current economic crisis.

• Calls on the department to shift resources away from retributive corrections approaches and reinvest in reentry support programs.

• Requests the department identify barriers to successful offender reentry and work with community stakeholders to develop policy changes that address these barriers.

• Requires the department to fully comply with section 353H-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which mandates providing civil identification documents to exiting offenders, and to correct noncompliance issues (approximately half of individuals currently exit without such documentation).