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<br /> <br /> <br />that’s true, that the Federal government is using the addresses of the facilities the <br />incarcerated are staying at? I might have heard it in error. I was just wondering. <br /> <br />KOSSOW: Ms. Lui. <br /> <br />LUI: I don’t know if that’s true or not but if it is, it’s really not fair. I would not think that <br />we should do it the same way because there are large, incarcerated populations that <br />would increase the numbers in a certain district. And yet, in some of those States too, <br />there’s felony disenfranchisement so that’s not a good thing at all. But it seems like it’s <br />not fair to the places where those people do have permanent homes because those would <br />have an undercount then. I guess after Ms. Nakamoto’s report, I guess she’s saying that <br />we don’t have a way of finding out where the permanent homes are of those people on <br />the island. Is that correct? <br /> <br />NAKAMOTO: Yes, based on the information that was provided to me by the warden at <br />the Punahele facility. I did want to mention that I contacted the Department of Public <br />Safety on Oʻahu. And I was instructed to send an email and my questions to DBEDT. I <br />did that so I am waiting to hear back from them on some information that I had requested <br />like numbers. When I hear from them, I can also ask them if they have information on the <br />addresses of these individuals when the census was taken. I don’t know what their answer <br />will be, but I can pose them with that question. <br /> <br />LUI: Thank you. <br /> <br />BATH: Stephanie Bath. <br /> <br />KOSSOW: Ms. Bath. <br /> <br />BATH: Yeah, I agree that it would be unfair. Based on what Director Nakamoto shared <br />with us about how some people might have put their home addresses rather than their <br />incarcerated addresses down. There’s no controlled study involved so I think that if we <br />just go with their home addresses it would make sense. <br /> <br />YOSHINA: Mr. Chair, this is Dwayne. <br /> <br />KOSSOW: Mr. Yoshina. <br /> <br />YOSHINA: Yeah, I’d like to have a clarification of our—the Commission’s <br />responsibilities, obligations, and authorities of this issue from Corp Counsel. I’m in favor <br />of doing that, what is being suggested but, I’m not too clear as to what the law says. <br /> <br />KOSSOW: Okay, is Corp Counsel there? <br /> <br />MELLON-LACEY: Yes, this is Diana Mellon-Lacey, Corp Counsel. I need to understand <br />specifically because I had some trouble hearing Ms. Nakamoto. What is being asked? <br /> <br /> 9 <br /> <br />