§353C-8.5 Correctional facility and community correctional center deaths; reporting. (a) Within forty-eight hours, the director shall report to the governor, and the governor shall report to the legislature, the death of any:
(1) Correctional facility or community correctional center employee who dies on the grounds of a correctional facility or community correctional center where Hawaii inmates reside or who sustains an injury on the grounds of a correctional facility or community correctional center where Hawaii inmates reside that causes the death of the employee; or
(2) Hawaii inmate who is incarcerated in a state or contracted correctional facility.
(b) The report in subsection (a) shall include the following information:
(1) The name of the decedent;
(2) The gender and age of the decedent;
(3) Whether the decedent was an inmate or an employee;
(4) The location of the death or injury leading to the death;
(5) The date and time of the death;
(6) The cause of death; and
(7) Any indication of sexual assault leading to the death;
provided that when the official cause of death has been determined, the director shall immediately report the official cause of death to the governor, and the governor shall immediately report the official cause of death to the legislature.
(c) Within thirty days of a death described in subsection (a), the director shall submit a report to the governor, and the governor shall submit the report to the legislature, of the clinical mortality review conducted in response to the death, including correctional actions to be taken.
(d) The director shall have the discretion to withhold disclosure of the decedent's name or any information protected from disclosure by state or federal laws. [L 2019, c 234, §1]
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