Newsletter Archive

As of March 2023, the State Disability and Communication Access Board (DCAB) revised its instructions for Sunshine Law boards to use on meeting notices for anyone requesting disability accommodation.  Therefore, the State Office of Information Practices (OIP) posted DCAB’s revised...

Sunshine Week is the time to get the facts about what Hawai`i’s Office of Information Practices (OIP) does to ensure public participation in State and county government via two important laws that it administers: the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA)...

Congratulations to Kauai County, Hawaii County, the Department of Accounting and General Services, and all others who have submitted their FY 2023 semiannual UIPA Record Request Logs and Checklists to the Office of Information Practices (OIP). Please remember to close...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted at oip.hawaii.gov two new reports of the State and county agencies’ UIPA Record Request Year-End Logs for FY 2022, which show many similarities between the overall results for the State and...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has revised the Notice to Requester (NTR) form to be used in responding to UIPA record requests.  The form was revised to make it clearer that requesters should be asking questions about their...

As we end the calendar year, the State Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to remind all agencies to close out the first half of your agency’s fiscal year 2023 UIPA Record Request Log and save it as a...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted its report to the Legislature on the implementation of Sunshine Law meetings held using interactive conference technology (ICT).  This report was required by Act 220, SLH 2021, which made major amendments...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted its FY 2022 Annual Report on its Reports page at oip.hawaii.gov, showing that OIP had a successful year after a long period of  COVID disruptions. Pent-up demand and return to work...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) is pleased to announce that the Working Group convened pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution 192 (SCR 192) has successfully completed its work and has prepared its “Report to the 2023 Legislature of the...

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted three new opinions that may be accessed via its Opinions page at oip.hawaii.gov. In informal U Memo 23-01, OIP concluded that the Reapportionment Commission properly responded under the UIPA to a...