A 2023 Civil Beat investigation found that authorities often failed to track the origins of illegal caches or build bigger legal cases.

California revoked Edward Hsu's physical therapy license based on a Hawaii conviction. In Hawaii, both his physical therapy and acupuncture licenses remain in good standing.

The state's Child Welfare Services has not explained its actions — or lack of action — in the case of a 3-year-old killed in June. Her grandmother says she warned the state that the girl and her siblings were being starved.

Some child abuse cases garner publicity and trigger outrage. But because of the state's secrecy, others never even come to light.

A close look at a new $600,000 settlement by the Department of Human Services reveals the child welfare bureaucracy's shortcomings. It's just the latest big award.

A state investigation alleges Laurie Loomis used an account she failed to disclose to the state bar to collect adoption fees and make payments to birth mothers, a facilitator and herself.

Jody Hall previously arranged for pregnant women to fly from the Marshall Islands to the U.S. through Honolulu in violation of international law. It's unclear if this new investigation will examine those actions as well as the jail accusations.

Judge Matthew Viola admitted that the public has an interest in how the state and Family Court placed Isabella Kalua with the parents accused of killing her.

The boy lived for five years in the Wahiawa home of Thomas and Brandy Blas and like Geanna suffered severe abuse and neglect, the complaint says.

A tenant named Tyler Markman told the state that his property manager was using unlicensed workers to show apartments. Despite a very clear 2015 directive, regulators said the law was too vague to take action.