Despite lawyers citing fake, AI-generated citations in court documents, a new report finds existing rules provide adequate safeguards.

UPDATE: New details emerged on Saturday in a video provided to Civil Beat of the incident that led to the arrest. The squalid conditions and violent outbreaks led the state representative for downtown to call for changes to Hawaiʻi landlord-tenant law.

The chief executive of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs wants her job back amid an internal investigation.

Citing Civil Beat’s investigation of a jail diversion program known as Act 26, a group of senators is asking the health department to consider potential changes to the law.

A federal judge says Martin Kao’s prison sentence will be a deterrent for others.

Legal experts said Sabrina McKenna’s opinion on the case involving three former city officials was not related to the matter before the court.

The prosecutor’s office halted the investigation into one of its own employees, blaming a paperwork issue. Now he’s back at work. 

Three former Honolulu officials may have an opening to get their criminal records thrown out, one legal expert says.

The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court on Tuesday broke with more than two decades of precedent to order the release of 975 pages showing how the 6-year-old was placed with parents now accused of killing her.

When Civil Beat sought exhibits in the trial of an abusive Hawaiʻi foster dad, the Attorney General’s Office intervened to prevent “family trauma” from becoming public. It already had.