Hawaii is a unified state: one court system, one corrections department, one business registry, and the counties handle little of what the mainland leaves to counties. eCourt Kokua carries criminal and civil cases from the District, Circuit and Family Courts statewide, with the documents themselves for sale at $3, and the Attorney General's Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center runs both the Covered Offender Search and eCrim.
The order to use: eCourt Kokua first, because it is statewide and reaches the filings; the Covered Offender Search for status; eCrim when the question is adult criminal history; MyPVL and the business registry for licenses and companies; then the Office of Health Status Monitoring for certificates and the county real property offices SearchSystems lists for land.
- Courts, statewide: the Judiciary's eCourt Kokua, criminal, civil, land, tax appeal and appellate cases, documents $3 for up to 30 pages.
- Registered offenders: the Covered Offender Search from the Attorney General's HCJDC.
- Criminal history: eCrim, Hawaii's adult criminal information system.
- Licenses and companies: MyPVL and the Business Registration Division portal.
- Certificates, money and confidentiality: the Office of Health Status Monitoring, the Unclaimed Property Program and the Address Confidentiality Program.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Hawaii's own systems: the Hawaii State Judiciary, the Department of the Attorney General's Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the Office of Elections, the Department of Health, the Department of Law Enforcement, each read on October 13, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
eCourt Kokua: statewide cases, documents for sale
The Hawaii State Judiciary's eCourt Kokua holds District Court, Circuit Court and Family Court criminal cases, District, Circuit and Family Court civil cases, Land Court and Tax Appeal Court cases and Intermediate Court of Appeals cases, and the Judiciary's own sidebar adds traffic cases and appellate case information. A refreshed design launched on May 17, 2026 with the same core functions, and the site meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. When SearchSystems read the page it carried a notice that access was temporarily unavailable, so the system does go down; its scheduled hours are Monday to Saturday from 4 a.m. to midnight and Sunday from noon to midnight, Hawaii time.
Publicly available documents are bought from the case docket tab: a flat $3 for a document of 1 to 30 pages and 10 cents for each page beyond 30. A subscription gives unlimited downloads of digital public records for $125 a quarter or $500 a year, and the Judiciary stresses that every payment on eCourt Kokua, subscriptions included, is non refundable. Attorneys and registered self represented litigants view their own cases' documents free through JEFS. Old migrated cases need their IDs rebuilt to 12 characters with the circuit number, case type and leading zeros, so a case numbered 8 becomes 1CU000000008 and CR-15-1-5678 becomes 1PC151005678; the page gives a full table of conversions. General questions go to 808-539-4909 or pao@courts.hawaii.gov, weekdays 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The sidebar also notes the Statewide Pre-filing Eviction Mediation Program under Act 278, effective February 5, 2026.
The Covered Offender Search and eCrim
The Department of the Attorney General's Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center runs the Sex Offender and Other Covered Offender Search, described on its page as a way to quickly look up publicly available offender information from the Hawaii Covered Offender Registry; the fields are on the search itself. eCrim, titled Hawaii's Adult Criminal Information, is served from the same data center's systems. The page SearchSystems reached was the system's sign in screen, with a note that sessions end after 30 minutes of inactivity and clear the search history and cart, so eCrim is a search with a cart, meaning results are purchased; its prices and terms are on the site.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation describes its mission as a secure correctional environment with rehabilitative, holistic and wraparound re-entry services, including culturally based approaches, for persons sentenced to its custody and care, and notes that over 95% of those who come to its facilities will eventually be released. The home page SearchSystems read offers no inmate lookup, so custody questions go to the department; eCourt Kokua shows the criminal case behind any sentence.
MyPVL licenses, business registrations and the voter system
The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' MyPVL public license search answered with its title and no text, so its fields are on the page. The department's Business Registration Division maintains the public business registry and processes filings for corporations and LLCs; effective July 6, 2026 it moved to a new computer system and portal at hbe.dcca.hawaii.gov, with Hawaii Business Express redirecting there, and when read it said filing and copies and certificates were available, other services were to follow, expedited handling was not available, and questions go to 1-844-808-3222. The Office of Elections' online voter registration system is for registering, updating a registration, confirming your own registration address and requesting to vote by mail, and requires a Hawaii driver license or state ID and a Social Security number, which makes it a service for the voter rather than a public lookup.
Vital records, and the end of state divorce records
The Department of Health's Office of Health Status Monitoring is Hawaii's vital records office, and its page carried one notice that changes a people search: effective February 1, 2026, the Department of Health no longer maintains records of divorce. The page gives a press release for details, so a Hawaii divorce after that date is a court record on eCourt Kokua rather than a health department record. The office's ordering terms for birth, death and marriage certificates are on its own pages; the page SearchSystems read was mostly accommodation notices in a dozen languages, with the department's non discrimination coordinator at (808) 586-4400.
Unclaimed property, the ACP and open records
The Department of Budget and Finance's Unclaimed Property Program page carried its heading alone, and the search site at unclaimedproperty.ehawaii.gov redirected, so the search is described on the site. The Department of Law Enforcement's Hawaii Address Confidentiality Program is a free resource for survivors of domestic abuse, sexual offenses and stalking who live, or will within 30 days live, in Hawaii at an address unknown to their assailants; participants use a substitute address with state and county agencies, have first class, certified and registered mail forwarded, and have service of process accepted on their behalf. Applications go through application assistants at certified victim services organizations, not to the department directly, under Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 801G, with questions at 808-587-5054.
The Office of Information Practices administers two laws designed to promote open and transparent government in Hawaii while protecting the personal privacy rights guaranteed under the Hawaii State Constitution; the office's home page names the purpose rather than the statutes, so the request process is in its guides.
Hawaii: eCourt Kokua first, then the rest
In Hawaii the court search does most of the work, because eCourt Kokua is statewide and sells the documents: a name run there returns criminal, civil, family, land and tax cases from every circuit, and a $3 purchase shows the filing. The Covered Offender Search settles registration and eCrim sells the adult criminal history. MyPVL and the business registry tie the name to a license or a company, and the health department confirms births, deaths and marriages. Land and property records are listed office by office on the Hawaii pages at SearchSystems.
Commercial people search reports on Hawaii residents draw on these same systems; the court docket, the covered offender registry and the property records are where a report is checked, at $3 a court document.
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