Christina Jedra
Investigative Reporter at Honolulu Civil Beat
Investigative reporter for @CivilBeat. Send tips to [email protected].
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3 days ago |
civilbeat.org | Christina Jedra
Applicants should start seeing a difference soon, the mayor says, thanks to new technology. Honolulu will start issuing building permits faster this fall with the help of technological upgrades, including artificial intelligence, Mayor Rick Blangiardi said at a Civil Beat event on Tuesday. The Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting has long struggled to keep up with a backlog of applications for residential and commercial renovations and new builds.
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1 week ago |
civilbeat.org | Christina Jedra
The prosecutor said Timothy Lee’s wealth makes him a flight risk. Lee’s attorney suggested his client’s money is all the more reason he’ll stay put. A wealthy Honolulu real estate executive accused of making fraudulent campaign contributions will be allowedto travel outside Hawaiʻi for business while out on bail and as his case plays out in court.
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1 week ago |
civilbeat.org | Christina Jedra
Lawyers across the country have been reprimanded and fined for artificial intelligence-generated filings but this may be the first of its kind locally. A panel of Hawaiʻi judges sanctioned an island attorney this month after a filing he submitted to the court cited a fake case that might have been generated by artificial intelligence.
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2 weeks ago |
civilbeat.org | Christina Jedra
People are sending undeclared explosives via U.S.P.S. on a regular basis. Few face arrest or prosecution. Federal agents find hundreds of pounds of illegal fireworks every year in mail headed for Hawaiʻi addresses, and packages are regularly seized and destroyed. Yet the senders of those packages, and the intended recipients, are almost never held accountable for bringing explosives into the islands.
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3 weeks ago |
civilbeat.org | Christina Jedra
Years after his corruption conviction, the ex-chief hasn’t returned his retirement money to taxpayers as promised. Now that he’s back on Oʻahu, is there any hope? The terms of Louis Kealoha’s retirement package were clear: The Honolulu police chief could resign with a $250,000 payout while under federal investigation, but if he were convicted of a crime, he’d have to pay the money back.
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