April 2021

The Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to thank the Hawaii State Legislature for passing today landmark legislation allowing Sunshine Law boards to remotely conduct public meetings.  OIP developed three draft proposals before the session, and five bills containing...

U Memo 21-5 April 15, 2021 Emails; Investigation Records This opinion consolidated two appeals from the same requester of responses by the Department of Education (DOE) to two separate record requests.    The first appeal asked whether DOE properly denied access...

The State Office of Information Practices is pleased to introduce two new team members:  Administrative Assistant Rae-Lynn Thomas and Staff Attorney Robert Shimizu.  Recognizing OIP’s need to fill these critical positions, Governor David Ige granted OIP rare exceptions from the...