Here’s How One Honolulu Cop Got His Job Back After He Was Fired For Misconduct…Ofc. William Suarez crashed his car and left the scene of the accident. He was fired but an arbitrator sided with the police union and gave him his job back.
For the first time in nearly two decades, county police departments have begun to release the names of officers who have been suspended for serious misconduct.
The change is the result of new legislation signed into law by Hawaii Gov. David Ige in September following the killing in Minnesota of a Black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer. The legislation eliminated an exemption in Hawaii’s public records law that kept most officers’ disciplinary files confidential.
Civil Beat requested misconduct records from all four county police departments regarding officers who had been suspended when the law was passed.
