2022

FY 2022 ends today, so it is time for all state, county, and independent agencies to start a new UIPA Record Request Log for FY 2023.  The Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to remind agencies to close out their...

U Memo 22-07 June 30, 2022 Conflicts of Interest Records Requester sought a decision as to whether the University of Hawaii (UH) properly denied in part his request for UH conflicts of interest disclosure forms and management plans for an...

U Memo 22-06 June 30, 2022 Employee Misconduct Records During Pending Investigations Requester was employed by the City and County of Honolulu, Department of Transportation Services (TRANS-HON) and filed a misconduct complaint against another TRANS-HON employee with the Equal Employment...

U Memo 22-05 June 30, 2022 Confidential Sources' Names in a Completed Investigation A former employee of the City and County of Honolulu (City) appealed the redaction of witness names from a completed investigation by the City’s Department of Human...

Opinion Ltr. No. F22-03 June 30, 2022 Employee Departure Records The Employees’ Retirement System (ERS) denied a request for records relating to its former chief investment officer’s departure.  Due in part to the emergency suspension of UIPA deadlines during the...

Two UIPA bills are on the list of bills that Governor David Ige may veto:  S.B. 3252, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, C.D. 1 relating to Public Records and S.B. 3172, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, C.D 1 relating to Public Agency...

U Memo 22-04 June 21, 2022 Prison's Use of Force Policy A member of the public appealed the Hawaii Department of Public Safety’s (PSD) denial of her request for access to the use of force policy for a contractor-operated prison...

U Memo 22-03 June 16, 2022 Inmate Release Information Requester sought a decision as to whether the Department of Public Safety (PSD) properly denied two requests for records under the UIPA.  Her first request was for the “names of 2018...

U Memo 22-02 May 31, 2022 Workplace Nonviolence Complaint Requester sought from the University of Hawaii (UH) a copy of a workplace nonviolence complaint (the Complaint) made against her, which the UH denied on the basis that the investigation into...

The Hawaii State Legislature has passed the following bills and resolution concerning the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA) (Chapter 92F, HRS) and Sunshine Law (Part I of Chapter 92, HRS), which will keep OIP busy this interim before the 2023...