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The sheriff of Kalawao County located on the Kalaupapa Peninsula on the north coast of the island of Moloka'i and the smallest US county, is selected from among the 86 local residents (86 total population per the 2019 estimate of the US Census Bureau), by the Hawaii Department of Health, which administers the county. The sheriff is the sole ...
Maui County (Hawaiian: Kalana ʻo Maui), officially the County of Maui, is a county in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It consists of the islands of Maui, Lānaʻi, Molokaʻi (except for a portion of Molokaʻi that comprises Kalawao County), Kahoʻolawe, and Molokini. The latter two are uninhabited. As of the 2020 census, the population was 164,754. [2]
Hawaii is one of six states in the United States that operates its jails at the state level. In most states jails are the responsibility of county and county-equivalent governments. The Hawaii Department of Public Safety is responsible for four jails: one on each of the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui and Kauai. [6]
A mobile morgue unit arrived Tuesday to help Hawaii officials working painstakingly to identify remains, as Maui County released the first names of people killed in the wildfire that all but ...
The County of Maui has found 114 remains of people in the burned area of Lahaina in Maui. In an official statement, the county said that 85 per cent of the search area has been probed by rescue ...
On 17 August, the County of Maui announced that Benjamin had died in the fire. Virginia Dofa Virginia “Vergie” Dofa, who was from Lahaina, died aged 90 in the Maui fire, the County confirmed.
The Hawaii Department of Law Enforcement (DLE) is a department within the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Hawaii.The department, which commenced operations on January 1, 2024, was created to merge several previously separate law enforcement functions among the Department of the Attorney General, Department of Transportation, and Department of Public Safety into a single ...
Kauai County: 007: Lihue: 1905: Kauai, the largest of the islands in the county; name possibly derived from Kauaʻi, the eldest son of Hawaiʻiloa. Kauai, Niʻihau, Lehua, and Kaʻula: 73,851: 622 sq mi (1,611 km 2) Maui County: 009: Wailuku: 1905: Maui, the largest of the islands in the county; named for Māui, a demigod from native mythology.