2021

Yesterday, Governor David Ige issued his Emergency Proclamation Related to the COVID-19 Response (Proclamation) which supersedes the prior proclamations issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Proclamation contains no suspension of Chapter 92F, HRS, Hawaii’s Uniform Information Practices Act...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has bid a fond aloha to staff attorney Donald Amano, who retired after seven years of service at OIP.  While we will miss him greatly, we wish Donald a long and happy retirement....

As its final opinion of FY 21, the state Office of Information Practices has posted on its Opinions page formal opinion number F21-02 regarding the Employees’ Retirement System (ERS). The requester in this case had sought measures of performance of...

The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) is pleased to announce that the Sunshine Law has been amended to allow remote meetings to be conducted online, effective January 1, 2022.  The Administration’s proposal, Senate Bill 1034, Senate Draft 1, House...

With the start of a new fiscal year, today is also the day that all state, county, and independent agencies should start a new FY 2022 UIPA Record Request Log. As explained in OIP’s June 22, 2021 What’s New article,...

Opinion Ltr. No. F21-02 June 24, 2021 ERS Investment Report Including Total Distribution Data for Private Equity Funds The Employees’ Retirement System (ERS) posted on its website a public version of a consultant-prepared report on ERS’s then-current investments, which left...

With the end of the fiscal year fast approaching, it will soon be time for all state, county, and independent agencies to start a new UIPA Record Request Log.  The Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to remind agencies...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted two new reports summarizing data about Hawaii’s open records law collected by 284 state, county, and independent agencies on their UIPA Record Request Logs for FY 2020, which ended on June...

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...