Informal Opinions – UIPA Opinions

U Memo 26-07 December 5, 2025 Request for Election Information After Lease With Vendor Expired On December 5, 2021, February 15, 2022, and May 19, 2022, Requester submitted three separate requests to the Office of Elections (OE) for access to the ballot images, cast vote records, and...

U Memo 26-06 November 21, 2025 Actual Knowledge That a Receipt is Not a Government Record Requester sought a copy of a store receipt that was held by a government employee in his personal capacity.  The UIPA requires that all government...

U Memo 26-05 November 18, 2025 Reasonable Search for Records; Confidential Attorney-Client Communications Requester made a record request to the Maui County Emergency Management Agency (EMA-M) for copies of letters mentioning a company named “Everbridge” or a product named “smart weather.”  EMA-M denied the request...

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...

U Memo 26-03 August 29, 2025 Airport Shuttle Contract Records Requester had previously contracted with the Department of Transportation, Airports Division (DOT) to run the Honolulu Airport’s Wiki Wiki shuttle bus (Wiki Wiki).  Requester bid on the next two-year Wiki...

U Memo 26-02 August 19, 2025 Redactions to Executive Session Minutes Requester sought an unredacted copy of the executive meeting minutes (Executive Minutes) for the Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) Board of Directors meeting on August 8, 2023.  Based on a...

U Memo 26-01 August 18, 2025 Reasonable Search for Maui Fire Relief Contracts Requester sought all state contracts pertaining to the “Maui Fires and Emergency Relief” from the Office of the Governor (GOV), although requester believed the Department of Budget...

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...

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...

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...