Formal Opinions

Opinion Letter No. 07-08 May 4, 2007 Personal Information in Agency's Response to Audit Report The state auditor asked whether the Office of the Auditor (the "Auditor"), could redact from an agency's response to an audit individually identifiable employee misconduct...

Opinion Letter No. 07-07 April 18, 2007 Personal Information and Vital Records in Land Records Requester sought guidance on disclosure under the UIPA of personal information and vital records included in the land records of the Department of Land and...

Opinion Letter No. 07-06 April 13, 2007 Sufficiency of Agenda Requester sought an advisory opinion on whether the Maui County Salary Commission provided sufficient notice under the Sunshine Law to allow its action to approve proposed salaries for certain Maui...

Opinion Letter No. 07-05 April 13, 2007 Energy Infrastructure Security The Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism asked whether it was required to disclose sensitive information reported to it by energy companies regarding the physical security of Hawaii's critical...

Opinion Letter No. 07-04 March 22, 2007 Police Blotter Information The Kauai Police Department asked whether it could redact from its Daily Arrest Log, commonly referred to as the police blotter, the names of individuals who were arrested and either...

Opinion Letter No. 07-03 February 13, 2007 Public Testimony The Office of Honolulu City Council Member Donovan Dela Cruz asked OIP for an opinion concerning whether the Council must accept oral testimony on: (1) an agenda item that has been...

Opinion Letter No. 07-02 February 2, 2007 Sufficiency of Agenda Re: Motions to Reconsider Several persons asked whether broad language included in all of the Hawaii County Council's agendas provided sufficient notice under the Sunshine Law to allow the Council...

Opinion Letter No. 07-01 February 1, 2007 Firearm Permits In response to an inquiry from the Honolulu Police Department ("HPD"), OIP concluded that firearm permit information that identifies an individual permit holder by name or address must be deemed to...

Opinion Letter No. 06-07 October 30, 2006 Executive Meeting Minutes Re: Employee Evaluation After the Board of Education (“BOE”) denied separate requests to access portions of BOE’s executive meeting minutes (“the Minutes”) related to the evaluation of Dr. James Shon,...

Opinion Letter No. 06-06 August 21, 2006 Meeting Notice Filing Requirement An advisory opinion was sought as to whether the Sunshine Law allows the filing of a meeting notice with the office of the lieutenant governor (for state boards) or...