Office of Information Practices

January 30, 2012 The Office of Information Practices’ (OIP) two bills will be heard by the Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee (Senator Clayton Hee, Chair) this Thursday, February 2, 2012, at 9:30 a.m. in Conference Room 16 at the State Capitol. Click here for detailed summaries of SB 2858 (appeals; companion to HB 2596) and SB 2859 (Sunshine Law; companion to ...
Read More Senate Hearing on OIP’s Bills This Thursday, 2/2/12

January 24, 2012 The state Office of Information Practices is pleased to announce that its two legislative proposals are in Governor Neil Abercrombie’s administration package and have been introduced in the 2012 legislative session. One proposal, introduced as HB 2596 and SB 2858, seeks to clarify the right of government agencies to appeal to the courts an ...
Read More OIP’S 2012 Legislative Bills Introduced

January 18, 2012 The Office of Information Practices (OIP) is often asked for advice on dealing with particularly large or complex record requests that agencies receive under the state’s Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA), Chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes. The fact that a request will require extensive agency efforts to respond is not, by itself, ...
Read More OIP GUIDANCE ON UIPA: COMPLEX RECORD REQUESTS AND ‘PUBLIC INTEREST’ FEE WAIVERS

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January 11, 2012 The state Office of Information Practices is pleased to announce that its two legislative proposals have been submitted for inclusion in Governor Neil Abercrombie’s administration package for the 2012 legislative session. One proposal seeks to clarify the right of government agencies to appeal to the courts an OIP determination that mandates the ...
Read More OIP’S 2012 Legislative Proposals

January 4, 2012 The state Office of Information Practices has released its annual report for fiscal year (FY) 2011, which began on July 1, 2010, and ended on June 30, 2011. The full report can be found on OIP’s website at hawaii.gov/oip/reports.html. Because the annual report is on a fiscal year basis, it does not describe ...
Read More OIP’S 2011 Annual Report