Case number format guide

Hawaiʻi eCourt Kōkua case number format

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58 verified official routes · Last reviewed 2026-07-22

Hawaiʻi traffic, district, circuit, family, land, tax-appeal, and appellate public case information

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    Hawaiʻi eCourt Kōkua

    Hawaiʻi traffic, district, circuit, family, land, tax-appeal, and appellate public case information

    Official sourcejimspss1.courts.state.hi.us:8080/eCourt/ECC/ECCDisclaimer.iface

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    Case number · Party name · Citation / ticket number · Hearing date · Filing or event date
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    Why this route: This page is already focused on this official portal · Hawaii matches the selected jurisdiction · Hawaiʻi eCourt Kōkua matches the selected court

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    Case number · Party name · Citation / ticket number · Hearing date · Filing or event date
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    No account required for public case information
    Fees
    Case information is free; document purchases cost extra
    Case number format
    Current JIMS/JEFS case IDs use a one-digit circuit, one-character court indicator, two-letter case type, two-digit year, and up-to-seven-digit sequence. Very old migrated cases may instead require a 12-character compact ID with circuit and leading zeroes.
    Last verified
    2026-07-22
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    Public case information with purchasable public documents; confidential, juvenile, and sealed material is excluded

    The 2026 eCourt Kōkua interface supports party, case ID, citation, filing-date, and upcoming-hearing searches across the listed Hawaiʻi court layers.

    The site requires disclaimer acceptance and may present reCAPTCHA. Confidential, juvenile, and sealed cases are unavailable, and historical cutoffs differ by court type.

  2. Explainable routing signal

    A documented case-number format was recognized

    Routing confidenceHigh · 92/100

    Jurisdiction
    Hawaiʻi traffic, district, circuit, family, land, tax-appeal, and appellate public case information
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    Official portal
    Hawaiʻi eCourt Kōkua
    Case type
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    Why this inference
    • Matches the documented Current Hawaiʻi JIMS/JEFS signal: circuit, court indicator, case type, year, sequence format for Hawaiʻi eCourt Kōkua. Official evidence

Officially documented format evidence

Case-number cues for Hawaiʻi eCourt Kōkua

Current JIMS/JEFS case IDs use a one-digit circuit, one-character court indicator, two-letter case type, two-digit year, and up-to-seven-digit sequence. Very old migrated cases may instead require a 12-character compact ID with circuit and leading zeroes.

Published examples

  • 1CPC-17-0000001
  • 1CCV-19-0000001
  • 1FDV-22-0000001

Signals used by this matcher

  • Current Hawaiʻi JIMS/JEFS signal: circuit, court indicator, case type, year, sequence

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01 State / state Hawaiʻi eCourt Kōkua Hawaiʻi traffic, district, circuit, family, land, tax-appeal, and appellate public case information Search byCase number · Party name · Citation / ticket number · Hearing date · Filing or event date CostCase information is free; document purchases cost extra Verified2026-07-22
Registration
No account required for public case information
Record access
Public case information with purchasable public documents; confidential, juvenile, and sealed material is excluded
Case number guidance
Current JIMS/JEFS case IDs use a one-digit circuit, one-character court indicator, two-letter case type, two-digit year, and up-to-seven-digit sequence. Very old migrated cases may instead require a 12-character compact ID with circuit and leading zeroes.

Basic online case information is free. Downloadable documents cost $3.00 per document or $0.10 per page, whichever is greater; document subscriptions are $125 per quarter or $500 per year.

The site requires disclaimer acceptance and may present reCAPTCHA. Confidential, juvenile, and sealed cases are unavailable, and historical cutoffs differ by court type.

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