Why We Built This Site
Hawaii offers useful public systems, yet each system answers a different question. HCJDC maintains the statewide criminal-history repository and eCrim conviction product. DCR handles state custody, HCJDC runs the Hawaii Sex Offender and Other Covered Offender Registry, and the unified Judiciary indexes criminal cases through eCourt Kōkua. County police departments still create most arrest and incident records. The site brings those statewide channels together and then uses the county directory to reach local police, custody, and circuit details.
What You Will Find Here
- Court guidance: how to search and interpret Hawaii criminal court case records
- Official check details: the name and fingerprint products offered through the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center
- State systems: what eCrim, eCourt Kōkua, SAVIN/VINELink, and the covered-offender registry each contain
- Record clearing: the difference between Hawaii expungement and judicial sealing
- County routes: the directory of all five Hawaii county equivalents and their local records sites
What We Cannot Do
This is a privately operated reference resource, with no affiliation to a Hawaii court, police department, DCR, HCJDC, or any other government body. Those limits mean:
- We cannot run an official background check or pull a criminal record for anyone
- We cannot file expungement petitions, records requests, or any other paperwork on your behalf
- We cannot issue certified copies of any criminal record, court document, or rap sheet
- We cannot give legal advice or explain how a specific charge or case applies to you
- We cannot guarantee that every phone number, fee, or address listed on this site is current right now
An official copy must come from the office that issued or maintains it, such as HCJDC, a Hawaii court, DCR, or the police agency that created the record. We identify those sources but cannot issue their documents.
Search Partners
Outside providers power search boxes found on some pages. They control their services, prices, data, and results. A paid signup reached through one of those tools may generate a referral fee for us, which supports free access to the reference content. We do not control a provider's charges or the records it returns.