Newsletter Archive

With the end of the fiscal year fast approaching, it will soon be time for all state, county, and independent agencies to start a new UIPA Record Request Log.  The Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to remind agencies...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted two new reports summarizing data about Hawaii’s open records law collected by 284 state, county, and independent agencies on their UIPA Record Request Logs for FY 2020, which ended on June...

The Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to thank the Hawaii State Legislature for passing today landmark legislation allowing Sunshine Law boards to remotely conduct public meetings.  OIP developed three draft proposals before the session, and five bills containing...

The State Office of Information Practices is pleased to introduce two new team members:  Administrative Assistant Rae-Lynn Thomas and Staff Attorney Robert Shimizu.  Recognizing OIP’s need to fill these critical positions, Governor David Ige granted OIP rare exceptions from the...

March 5, 2021 was a key deadline to file committee reports for bills that will likely cross over from one chamber to the other of Hawaii’s Legislature by March 11.  While the state Office of Information Practices (OIP) has been...

Shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Uniform Information Practices Act (Modified), chapter 92F, HRS (UIPA), was temporarily suspended in its entirety and the Sunshine Law, part I of chapter 92, HRS, was partially suspended by a series...

The State Office of Information Practice (OIP) is pleased to announce that the State Calendar is being updated to look like other State websites and to be more user friendly. Existing data will be transferred to the new site beginning...