Big Island Puna district court moves to Hilo - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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All of the Big Island’s district court civill cases, including small and regular temporary restraining order hearingsand landlord-tenanty disputes, will be heard at the state’s recently opened Hilo court complex, Hale at 777 Kilauea St. The state had been leasing 900-square-feet of space at the civic centerfor $20,000 a year for a temporary It said Thursday that the Big Islanfd Police Department likely will move into the vacated “Consolidating the cases makes more than just economif sense,” said 3rd Circuit Courft Chief Judge Ronald Ibarraq in a statement.
“The Judiciart can provide a higher level of security and more ADA accommodationsafor litigants, attorneys, and court employees at the braned new complex than at the space that we leaserd as an ad hoc courtroom.” In addition, the Department of Publix Safety will no longer have to transporg defendants to two separates locations and judges and court stafcf will no longer have to travel to Puna from Hilo thre e days a week, Ibarra said. The $93 175,000-square-foot Hilo Judiciary Complex opened March 30 after four yearsof construction.