HONOLULU — City officials plan to send Honolulu police into state-owned Kakaako Waterfront Park and adjacent parks to clear an estimated 80 homeless people from the grounds. City officials have been working with the Hawaii Community Development Authority to transfer ownership of the parks to the city. “We want the city to go in there and enforce its parks rules and regulations as soon as possible,” Leong said. It has been paying a private security company called Block by Block $331,000 annually to enforce park rules, although Block by Block has no police powers. Kakaako Waterfront Park and its sister parks “should have always gone to an agency that deals with parks,” said Garett Kamemoto, the development authority’s interim executive director.

Source: National Post April 30, 2018 13:41 UTC