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Civil Beat has a board of directors that includes publisher Pierre Omidyar. [11]Civil Beat gets revenue from subscriptions along with funding from Omidyar. Other sponsorships have come from local businesses and nonprofits, such as the law firm of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, Appleseed Center and Honolulu Museum of Art which together provided underwriting for a reporting project in Micronesia, and ...
Also in May 2021, the Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest made a public records request for all police bodycam footage to be released, then sued the Honolulu Prosecutor's office after they denied the request on the basis that the investigation was still open and release of the footage could "poison the jury pool". The suit argued that ...
Killing of Lindani Myeni. On April 14, 2021, three officers from the Honolulu Police Department shot and killed 29-year-old Lindani Myeni fronting a home in Nuʻuanu, Honolulu County, Hawaii during an alleged burglary. [1] Myeni was a Black South African who played professional rugby and had two young children.
The Red Hill water crisis is a public health crisis and environmental disaster caused by fuel leaking from the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility into the freshwater aquifer underneath the island of Oʻahu. [1] Residents in military housing in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam began reporting chemical contamination in their ...
Honolulu Civil Beat begins publication. [39] Kirk Caldwell becomes mayor, succeeded by Peter Carlisle. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser begins publications after the merger of the Advertiser and Star-Bulletin; Population: 390,738. 2013 - Kirk Caldwell becomes mayor again. [40] 2014 - Sit-lie ordinance effected. [41]
In 2010, Omidyar launched an online investigative reporting news service, Honolulu Civil Beat, covering civic affairs in Hawaii. The site was named Best News Website in Hawaii for 2010, 2011, and 2012. [36] On September 4, 2013, Honolulu Civil Beat started a partnership with HuffPost, launching HuffPost Hawaii.
Charles Kong Djou (born August 9, 1970) is an American politician and attorney who is currently Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission. A former member of the Republican Party, Djou briefly served as U.S. representative from Hawaii's 1st congressional district from May 2010 to January 2011. [1]
Assumed office November 8, 2022: Preceded by: Redistricted: Personal details; Born: 1988 or 1989 (age 35–36) [1] Nationality: American: Political party: Democratic