Rule 130 Admission to Shelter or Detention.

When police or the court want to place a child in a shelter or detention facility, they have to follow the process laid out in Hawaiʻi's state law, HRS section 571-31. This law spells out the specific steps and requirements that must happen before a child can be placed in one of these facilities.

In simple terms, this rule doesn't create new requirements on its own. Instead, it points to the existing state law as the source of the rules that must be followed. Anyone wanting to know exactly when and how a child can be admitted to shelter or detention needs to look at what HRS section 571-31 says.