June 2025

U Memo 25-22 June 30, 2025 Proposals and Financial Records Designated as Confidential  Requester questioned whether the City and County of Honolulu, Department of Budget and Fiscal Services (B&F-HON) properly withheld financial records from six offerors and two of the...

Opinion Ltr. 25-07 June 30, 2025 Sufficiency of Minutes A member of the public asked whether the Maui County Planning Commission’s (Commission) written summary accompanying its recorded minutes violated the Sunshine Law by failing to record all votes made by...

U Memo 25-21 June 25, 2025 Roster of Graduate Assistants Requester made a record request to the University of Hawaii (UH) for a roster of graduate assistants.  UH partially granted the request but withheld information that would make it possible...

Governor Josh Green signed three bills into law affecting the Sunshine Law.  The Governor also signed into law a bill allowing access to closing police reports by a deceased person’s family members after a set time period.  All the new...

The Office of Information Practices recently issued six informal opinions under the Uniform Information Practices Act, chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes (UIPA), and Sunshine Law, part I of chapter 92, HRS.  The summaries of the opinions can be found on...

S Memo 25-06 June 5, 2025 Anonymous Testimony OIP found that based on (1) the Council’s prior interactions with Requester, (2) Requester’s lack of objection to being identified by his real name in previous meetings while using the same screen...

U Memo 25-20 June 4, 2025 Personal Records; Stalking Allegations  In 2022, the director (Director) of the Hawaii County Department of Parks and Recreation (Parks) appeared before the Hawaii County Board of Ethics and, according to Requester, “spewed about an...