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On 2026-10-20, City Councilmember Augitoba, Chair of the Committee on Public Safety and the Economy, released a Council Conversations video summarizing key outcomes from the committee's November hearing. The committee addressed Bill 46 concerning police dispatch information and made two appointments. All items are scheduled for the full council meeting on December 3rd.
Note: The transcript references a November hearing, but the provided date for this summary is 2026-10-20 (October 20, 2026). No agenda or minutes were available to verify the exact committee hearing date.
Aloha, I'm City Councilmember Augitoba. Welcome to Council Conversations. I represent District 9 and I chair the Public Safety and Economy Committee. In this committee, we look at laws that keep our neighborhoods, our people, and our island safe, while also overseeing legislation about our local economy from our six municipal golf courses to the Blazedale and Waikiki Shell. Today we're breaking down what came out of our November Public Safety and Economy hearing. You probably heard about Bill 46. This bill will bring back access to basic police dispatch information from our local newsrooms. That means TV, radio, newspapers can give you quicker, more accurate updates during big emergencies. There's been a lot of work to bring HPD and the media to agree on the timing of notifications while ensuring citizens' privacy rights are protected and maintain the integrity of HPD's tactical operations. The committee also made two appointments. Resolution 25292, appointing Anno New Barr to the Citizens Advisory Commission on Emergency Management, and Resolution 25290, appointing Blake Parsons to the police commission. All these items now head to the next full council meeting on December 3rd at 10 a.m. I hope you'll join us either in person at City Hall or online at Honolulu City Council.org. Mahalo, I'm Councilmember Augitoba, your chair of the Committee on Public Safety and the Economy, and this is Council Conversation.