SB2706: ‘Expungement’ will help sex offenders find work in Hawaii schools
by Andrew Walden
Hawaii has a severe shortage of teachers and child care workers–and hundreds of potential applicants eager to fill those positions. There is only one thing standing in their way; they are listed on the Hawaii Sex Offender Registry. But Legislators have a solution: SB2706 “expands access to employment” by creating a task force for “clean slate expungement” which violates the principle of an open court system in order to prevent HR personnel from nursery schools, the State Department of Education, and other employers from learning the truth.
