October 2025

U Memo 26-04 October 29, 2025 Reasonable Search for Records Requester made a record request to the City and County of Honolulu Police Department (HPD) for a copy of a hospital report that was part of a court case.  HPD denied the...

S Memo 26-01 October 23, 2025 Applicability of Sunshine Law to Working Group  Requester asked for an investigation into whether a group created by the Maui County Department of Planning to discuss potential revisions to the Maui Planning Commission’s (Commission)...

Updated reference materials:  OIP has updated its UIPA Index and Sunshine Law Index, which allow key word searches for OIP’s formal opinions by subject matter, and its Table of Statutes that are found on its Opinions page to include its...

October 13, 2025, is a paid federal holiday (Columbus Day), but state and county agencies do not have a paid day off (Discoverers’ Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day are both statutorily recognized on the second Monday in October, but not...

The Office of Information Practices recently issued one formal opinion and 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...

The Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to remind boards about the Sunshine Law’s requirements for setting time limits on oral testimony.  Boards may set reasonable time limits on oral testimony under section 92-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), which...