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This bill prohibits law enforcement agencies and officers in Hawaii from using biometric surveillance technology, which is defined as software that performs facial recognition or other remote biometric recognition, unless specific conditions are met. These conditions include having a reasonable suspicion that a person has committed a crime, executing a judicial warrant based on probable cause that an unidentified individual has committed a crime, or in situations where there is a reasonable belief of an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury requiring immediate facial recognition searches. Facial recognition is further defined as an automated process to identify, verify, or analyze individuals based on their physical characteristics, or to derive information about their associations, activities, or location, but it excludes using search terms to sort images in a database.

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https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=2049&year=2026