Steve Alm

Steven S. Alm is an American lawyer who is the current Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu. A former Hawaii circuit court judge and United States Attorney, he was sworn into the position of prosecutor on January 2, 2021.

Early life and education Alm was born in Honolulu, living in Manoa and later Kaimuki. His parents were professors at the University of Hawaiʻi College of Education, and he and his brother attended University Lab School. He worked for Dole Cannery in the summers, beginning after tenth grade, and later as a taxi driver.

Alm attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for two years before making a college transfer to the University of Oregon, where he received undergraduate and graduate degrees in education. While at the University of Oregon, he met his future wife, Haunani; they have one son.

Career After working at West Publishing Company from 1983 to 1985, Alm began his legal career in the office of the Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu in 1985, where he was director of the division focused on the district court and family court.

U.S. Attorney Alm was appointed the United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii by Bill Clinton in 1994, and led the local Weed and Seed program, coordinating law enforcement and providers of social services for a crime prevention effort in Chinatown and Kalihi–Pālama. He has claimed that the program reduced crime in those areas by 70% over three years, and that the rate began to rise again after he left the U.S. Attorney position. from 2001 to 2016. In 2004, he founded Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), a program intended to reduce violations of probation by people at high risk for recidivism, especially people arrested for drug-related crimes. The program went on to be used in some form by 32 other states. and defeating former Honolulu Deputy Prosecutor Megan Kau in the election for the position, Alm was elected to a four-year term as Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu. by Mark E. Recktenwald at Neal S. Blaisdell Center. He was 67 years old at the time. Dozens of people were additionally sworn in as deputy prosecutors during the ceremony. In addition to restoring public trust, Alm additionally stated his intent to train deputy prosecutors in ethics and trial skills, divide them into specialized teams, and consider restructuring the office.