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World-Traveling Hawaiʻi Bureaucrat Arranged $30M In Tech Contracts
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
World-Traveling Hawaiʻi Bureaucrat Arranged $30M In Tech Contracts

A Hawaiʻi Department of Law Enforcement official identified tech companies that impressed him at conferences about policing and surveillance. He later got a job with one of them.

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