2023

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted the summaries of two new memorandum opinions concluding that agencies were absolved under the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA) from conducting searches for records that they actually knew did not exist....

As of March 2023, the State Disability and Communication Access Board (DCAB) revised its instructions for Sunshine Law boards to use on meeting notices for anyone requesting disability accommodation.  Therefore, the State Office of Information Practices (OIP) posted DCAB’s revised...

U Memo 23-04 March 21, 2023 Reasonable Search for Solid Waste Stream Records A member of the public appealed the response by the Office of the County Clerk for the County of Hawaii (Clerk’s Office) to her request for records...

U Memo 23-03 March 15, 2023 No Duty to Search for Land Court Records Requester asked the Bureau of Conveyances (BOC) for copies of documents related to a property registered in the Land Court of the State of Hawaii (Land...

Sunshine Week is the time to get the facts about what Hawai`i’s Office of Information Practices (OIP) does to ensure public participation in State and county government via two important laws that it administers: the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA)...

Congratulations to Kauai County, Hawaii County, the Department of Accounting and General Services, and all others who have submitted their FY 2023 semiannual UIPA Record Request Logs and Checklists to the Office of Information Practices (OIP). Please remember to close...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted at oip.hawaii.gov two new reports of the State and county agencies’ UIPA Record Request Year-End Logs for FY 2022, which show many similarities between the overall results for the State and...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has revised the Notice to Requester (NTR) form to be used in responding to UIPA record requests.  The form was revised to make it clearer that requesters should be asking questions about their...