About Hawaii Public Records

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Hawaii is known for its tourism, real estate and businesses which cater to visitors. With real estate transactions, high employment turn over and a growing population, the state and local governments strive to provide many essential and basic needs of the public online. Bureau of Conveyances offers a name or document search of land title records beginning from January 1992. The Attorney General's Criminal Justice Data Center services statewide history record information, fingerprint identification and offender registries. Office of Health Status Monitoring has an online ordering system for divorces occurring from July 1951 to December 2002, certified copies of births, deaths, civil unions or marriages. A certified traffic abstract or traffic court report can be requested from the Traffic Violations Bureau directly showing moving violations, convictions and administrative actions.

Access Hawaii Courts online directly. Search court records; from Hawaii county courts to Supreme courts. Find criminal filings, Hawaii dissolution of marriage or divorce records from official state websites. File small claims lawsuits. Bankruptcy courts by jurisdiction or by districts. Hawaii state courts contact information such as telephone numbers and more.

Criminal, civil and divorce records in Hawaii can be held by more than one court, so search each court that may hold the case. The official court site below lists the Hawaii courts and how to reach each one.

• Hawaii State Judiciary courtsHawaii State Judiciary

Hawaii criminal records are maintained by the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center (HCJDC) under the Attorney General. HCJDC issues criminal history record checks, referred to as "Police Clearance" or "Police Abstract," for the State of Hawaii. Both name-based ($30) and fingerprint-based ($30) background checks are available. Name-based checks can also be done online via eCrim. Court records are searchable through eCourt Kokua, the Hawaii State Judiciary online system covering traffic, criminal, civil, and family court cases across all circuits.

Certified copies of Hawaii birth and death certificates are issued by the Hawaii State Department of Health. Marriage records are also kept by the local office that issued the license, and divorce records by the court that granted the divorce.

• Hawaii vital recordsHawaii State Department of Health

Land records in Hawaii are recorded by the state Bureau of Conveyances, while property taxes are handled by each county. Business and UCC filings are kept by the state, bankruptcy cases are federal court records, and the state runs a free search for unclaimed property.

Hawaii.gov lists the state's departments and agencies, and the Hawaii Revised Statutes are online from the Hawaii State Legislature.

• Hawaii.gov departments and agenciesOfficial list of Hawaii agencies
• Hawaii Revised StatutesHawaii State Legislature

Hawaii has no statewide DMV; each county registers vehicles. The Judiciary sells traffic abstracts, and the state Department of Transportation explains how to get a driver history record.

• Traffic abstractsHawaii State Judiciary
• Motor vehicle registration by countyHawaii Department of Transportation

In Hawaii, a person who was arrested or charged but not convicted may apply to the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, part of the Attorney General, to expunge that arrest. The process takes 120 days, and since July 1, 2025 a person granted an expungement order no longer has to ask the Judiciary separately to seal the related court records.

• Hawaii expungementsHawaii Criminal Justice Data Center

For family history, start with the Hawaii State Archives.

• Hawaii State ArchivesDepartment of Accounting and General Services
• Digital Archives of HawaiiDigitized records from the State Archives

The Missing Child Center Hawaii, in the Department of the Attorney General, is the state's missing children clearinghouse.

• Missing Child Center HawaiiDepartment of the Attorney General
• NamUsU.S. Justice Department database of missing and unidentified people

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