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Committee advances working group to study image-based sexual abuse; AG to serve as counsel, LRB suggested
Summary
The House Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs Committee advanced HCR 93 and HR 85 to form a working group on image-based sexual abuse. The Attorney General offered legal assistance but suggested Legislative Reference Bureau research; the Commission on the Status of Women asked to expand scope to prevention and intervention.
Vice Chair Poepoe asked the committee to consider HCR 93 and HR 85, which would ask the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women to convene a working group and report back with recommendations to strengthen protections for survivors of image-based sexual abuse.
Deputy Attorney General Mark Tofte told the committee the Department of the Attorney General would be better positioned to serve as legal counsel to the commission rather than as an active working-group member. "If the intent of this resolution is to create a working group, the Department believes that they…
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