Informal Opinions – UIPA Opinions

U Memo 18-7 May 16, 2018 Taxpayer’s Audit File The Department of Taxation (DOTAX) properly withheld the records in a taxpayer’s audit file from the taxpayer under the exemption to personal record disclosure for records that are part of an...

U Memo 18-6 April 30, 2018 Superintendent’s Annual Evaluation On behalf of the Board of Education (BOE), its then Chairperson sought an opinion on whether the Superintendent of the Department of Education’s (Superintendent) annual evaluation report must be disclosed upon...

U Memo 18-5 April 20, 2018 Hippopotamus Records A Requester asked OIP for a decision as to whether the Department of Enterprise Services of the City and County of Honolulu properly denied access under Part II of the UIPA to...

U Memo 18-4 March 29, 2018 Complainant’s Name Requester asked the Planning Department, County of Hawaii (PLAN-H) to disclose the name of the person who filed a complaint about Requester’s property.  PLAN-H denied his record request.  Requester appealed PLAN-H’s denial,...

U Memo 18-3 January 19, 2018 Assessed Real Property Values Requester asked whether the County of Kauai Department of Finance’s policy of providing a single assessment of a parcel’s whole value rather than separate assessments for land and improvements (Allocated...

U Memo 18-2 December 28, 2017 Agency Claim That Requested Records Do Not Exist Requester made a written request to the County of Kauai Department of Planning (PLAN-K) for a copy of a “Notice of Violation” issued to two individuals. ...

U Memo 18-1 October 13, 2017 Adequacy of Search for Records and Agency Not Required to Create Compilation Requester sought access to all written correspondence between the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Department of Education (DOE) regarding a...

U Memo 17-8 June 30, 2017 Obligation to Provide Original Records Requester made a request by e-mail on behalf of herself and her husband to the State Ethics Commission (SEC) for the original letters written by the SEC’s director to...

U Memo 17-6 June 30, 2017 Adequacy of Search for Inmate Transfer Records Requester, an inmate, sought a decision as whether the Department of Public Safety (PSD) properly denied a request to access two “Internal Memorandum” (IM) documents related to...

U Memo 17-7 June 23, 2017 Personal and Government Records Relating to Commuter Services and Campus Security Offices Requester made a long and complex record request to UH, comprising 14 categories of information for which she was seeking records.  For...