Haw. Code R. § 5-25-3 - Community notification

(a) Community notification is a free service that notifies a subscriber electronically when a covered offender, within a specified zip code or a specified geographic range of an address provided by the subscriber, registers or updates registration information. The notification consists of a link to the covered offender's public registration record.

(b) Any individual or group with a valid email address may sign up for a subscription account at the Hawaii sex offender website at www.sexoffenders.hawaii.gov [File Link Not Available].

(c) The geographic range that may be specified is limited to within either one, two, or three miles of an address.

(d) The following information will be required from the subscriber:

(1) Email address,-

(2) Location description;

(3) Address; and

(4) Geographic range or zip code area.

(e) The notification will work in the following manner:

(1) When a covered offender's registration record is entered or updated, the registered addresses will be run against the subscription database;

(2) When any of the registered addresses falls within the requested geographic range of a subscriber address in the subscription database or matches a requested zip code, an electronic notification will be sent to the subscriber.

(f) The department reserves the right to terminate a subscription upon finding misuse of the information by the subscriber.

Notes

Haw. Code R. § 5-25-3

[Eff JUN 29 2012] (Auth: HRS § 846E-3Cc)) (Imp: HRS § 846E-3(c))