The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) is pleased to announce that its Annual Report for FY 2016 has been posted to the Reports page of its website at oip.hawaii.gov. As this will be the last What’s New for 2016, OIP’s team would like to wish everyone Hau’oli Makahiki Hou! See you next year!
What’s New
The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) issued six new opinions in the first half of FY 2017, including two formal opinions. The entire text of the formal opinions and the summaries of all opinions are posted on OIP’s opinions page at oip.hawaii.gov and are briefly described as follows. F17-01: Requester, who was the prior Plan ...
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The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) is providing these comments regarding the only proposed amendment concerning public records, which will be on this year’s general election ballot as the City and County of Honolulu’s proposed Charter Amendment #20 and states in relevant part: Should the Charter be amended for ...
Read More PROPOSED HONOLULU CHARTER AMENDMENT REGARDING PUBLIC RECORDS
The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted on its website a brief summary of the Hawaii Supreme Court’s June 2016 decision regarding disclosure of police suspension records under the Uniform Information Practices Act (Modified), chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) (UIPA). In Peer News LLC v. City and County of Honolulu, 138 Haw. 53, ...
Read More SUPREME COURT RULES ON DISCLOSURE OF POLICE MISCONDUCT RECORDS
This month marks the 50th birthday of the enactment of the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which gives people the right to access records from the federal government. Hawaii has a similar law, the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA), which was enacted in 1988 to give people the right to access records from the ...
Read More HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY, FOIA!
The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) recently issued three new formal opinions, which are summarized below. The full texts of all formal opinions are posted on the Opinions page at oip.hawaii.gov. In OIP Op. Ltr. No. F16-03, OIP recognized the general requirement that agencies conduct a reasonable search for responsive records when receiving requests, ...
Read More OIP ISSUES THREE NEW FORMAL OPINIONS
As we start the new fiscal year, the Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to remind agencies to begin using the new FY 2017 Log found on the UIPA Record Request Log Training page at oip.hawaii.gov. While agencies still have some time to complete record requests received through June 30, 2016 and report them ...
Read More NEW FISCAL YEAR, NEW LOG, NEW HOME FOR OIP
Hawaii’s Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted on its website newly revised training materials for the Sunshine Law, Part I of the Chapter 92, HRS. The Sunshine Law Public Meeting Notice Checklist as well as the Quick Review on the “Sunshine Law Requirements for Audio and Videoconferenced Meetings” have been revised and can be ...
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The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted summaries of three recent informal opinions relating to the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA), which are posted on the UIPA informal opinions page of OIP’s website. In U Memo 16-4, OIP concluded that the Department of Health (DOH) timely responded to a records request by conducting ...
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Hawaii’s Office of Information Practices (OIP) has revised its basic training that provides detailed instructions on how to use the UIPA Record Request Log and it now incorporates the new FY 2017 Log and Checklist procedures. The “UIPA Record Request Log Basic Training” (June 2016) is a power point presentation with an audio narration that ...
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