The state of Hawaiʻi says it’s bound by law to protect the confidentiality of anyone involved in the foster care system — names, histories, reports of abuse or anything else from their files. But they were nowhere to be found, either on eCourt Kokua or in the paper files at the Circuit Court records room downtown. The Circuit Court judge told them that he planned to make the exhibits public by the deadline the following day. The records involving foster children, foster parents, abuse reports and the like were so confidential, he wrote, that just redacting names would not solve the problem. By my count, he named six former foster children and another person who served as a foster parent.