STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2209

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3070
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and
Education and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 3070
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CYBER-TERRORISM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to create the offenses of
cyber-terrorism and cyber-terrorism of a law enforcement officer.

     The Department of Public Safety and the Honolulu Police
Department submitted testimony in support of the measure. 

     Your Committees find that there is increasing misuse of the
Internet to harass, threaten, and terrorize individuals.  These
acts of terrorism include the posting of personal information and
photographs of individuals on the Internet and even soliciting
the assassination of law enforcement officers.  Victims of
harassment committed through the Internet have found prosecution
under existing harassment laws to be difficult and frustrating,
and have also experienced difficulty in getting Internet service
providers (ISPs) to remove personal information posted without
their authorization.  

     This measure addresses the inadequacy in the current law by
establishing the offenses of cyber-terrorism and cyber-terrorism
of a law enforcement officer, with severer penalties for
commission of the latter offense.  Your Committees finds that
greater penalties for acts against law enforcement officers are

 
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justified because of the officers' exposure to greater harm.  In
addition to making certain acts committed by individuals using
the Internet illegal, the measure also prohibits certain acts by
ISPs, including assisting in the construction of a website that
allows an individual's personal information to be viewed on the
Internet and refusing to remove an individual's personal
information after three warnings.    

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making
technical, nonsubstantive amendments. 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Education and
Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3070, as
amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the
form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3070, S.D. 1, and be referred to
the Committee on Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Commerce and
                                   Consumer Protection and
                                   Education and Technology,



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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair                BRIAN KANNO, Co-Chair



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                                   BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair

 
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