2023

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) issued three new formal opinions, all of which involved Hawaii’s Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA), Chapter 92F, HRS.  The full opinions can be accessed via the Formal Opinion Letters page at oip.hawaii.gov and...

Opinion Lt. No. F23-05 May 18, 2023 Records Relating to Request for Proposals A requester appealed the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR)’s denial of his request for records relating to a request for proposals (RFP) regarding the Ala...

Opinion Ltr. No. F23-04 May 18, 2023 Attorney-Client Privileged Communications A record requester (Requester) made a request for copies of communications between the County of Maui Department of the Corporation Counsel (CORP CNSL-M) CORP CNSL-M and its clients regarding the...

OIP Op. Ltr. No. F23-03 May 18, 2023 Name of Student Members Serving on Admissions Committee for William S. Richardson School of Law An anonymous requester made three separate requests to the University of Hawaii (UH) for records showing the...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) greatly appreciates the Legislature’s confidence in our office and its generous support for the establishment of two new positions at OIP:  a sixth staff attorney and one legal assistant.  Pending legislative passage tomorrow...

[This is the third article that Civil Beat was given the first opportunity to publish, but did not.  Despite the many articles and opinion pieces that Civil Beat has published referencing the deliberative process privilege, it has chosen not to...

[This is the second article that was first offered to Civil Beat for publication, which it has not published.  The conference committee will be meeting on HB 719 today at 1:30 p.m.]   Civil Beat has published a number of...

[On April 19, 2023, the online organization Civil Beat was given the first opportunity to provide the article below to its readers, which was not published as of the time this What’s New article was disseminated.]   Despite the important...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) issued a new formal opinion regarding the redaction of information from the Offendertrak correctional directory maintained by the Department of Public Safety (PSD).  OIP Opinion Letter No. F23-02 is now posted on the...

Opinion Ltr. No. F23-02 April 14, 2023 Inmate Database Information A requester asked PSD for a dataset consisting of selected fields from PSD’s Offendertrak correctional database system covering the period from 2000-2018.  After initially estimating fees of over a million...