Newsletter Archive

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) issued four new informal opinions, involving Hawaii’s Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA), Chapter 92F, HRS, or the Sunshine Law, Part I of Chapter 92, HRS.  Summaries of the informal opinions can be accessed...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) reminds Sunshine Law boards that two 2023 laws, Act 019 and Act 125, added new Sunshine Law requirements effective July 1 and October 1, 2023. Act 019 (SB 1513), which went into effect...

With the end of FY 2023, it is time for all state, county, and independent agencies to start a new UIPA Record Request Log for FY 2024.  The Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to remind agencies to close out...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) issued three new formal opinions, all of which involved Hawaii’s Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA), Chapter 92F, HRS.  The full opinions can be accessed via the Formal Opinion Letters page at oip.hawaii.gov and...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) greatly appreciates the Legislature’s confidence in our office and its generous support for the establishment of two new positions at OIP:  a sixth staff attorney and one legal assistant.  Pending legislative passage tomorrow...

[This is the third article that Civil Beat was given the first opportunity to publish, but did not.  Despite the many articles and opinion pieces that Civil Beat has published referencing the deliberative process privilege, it has chosen not to...

[This is the second article that was first offered to Civil Beat for publication, which it has not published.  The conference committee will be meeting on HB 719 today at 1:30 p.m.]   Civil Beat has published a number of...

[On April 19, 2023, the online organization Civil Beat was given the first opportunity to provide the article below to its readers, which was not published as of the time this What’s New article was disseminated.]   Despite the important...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) issued a new formal opinion regarding the redaction of information from the Offendertrak correctional directory maintained by the Department of Public Safety (PSD).  OIP Opinion Letter No. F23-02 is now posted on the...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted the summaries of two new memorandum opinions concluding that agencies were absolved under the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA) from conducting searches for records that they actually knew did not exist....