The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted two reports that summarize data about its open records law, which was collected on the UIPA Record Request Logs submitted by 276 state, county, and independent agencies for FY 2019 that ended on June 30, 2019. Both reports are now on OIP’s Reports page at oip.hawaii.gov, which ...
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What’s New
As calendar year 2019 comes to an end, Hawaii’s Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted its Annual Report for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2019 on its Reports page at oip.hawaii.gov. Thanks to a 10% decrease in the number of new formal cases filed and the hard work of its experienced team, OIP ...
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The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted online summaries of its latest memoranda opinions on its Opinions page at oip.hawaii.gov. S Memo 20-1: The permitted interaction at section 92-2.5(c), HRS, allows discussions between two or more members of a board, but less than the number of members that would constitute a quorum for ...
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The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) bids a fond farewell to staff attorney Liza Canady and welcomes back Mimi Horiuchi as her replacement. If her name is familiar, it is because Mimi previously worked at OIP for five years and has returned to her position as a staff attorney. Welcome back, Mimi! For the ...
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Since its inception in 1988, the State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has issued 360 formal opinions and 640 informal opinions. U Memo 20-1 issued yesterday was OIP’s 1000th opinion. In this opinion, OIP followed the precedent established in OIP Opinion Letter Number F19-05 to conclude that the State Department of Taxation (TAX) had not ...
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The State Office of Information Practices has posted summaries of the following UIPA memorandum opinions on its UIPA opinions page at oip.hawaii.gov. U Memo 19-11: The State Ombudsman is allowed under the UIPA to withhold all information its case files in order to maintain secrecy regarding its investigations as required by HRS § 96-9(b). U ...
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The State Office of Information Practices has updated Part II of its Sunshine Law training video and related materials. No updates were needed for Part I of the video. The video, as well as the rest of OIP’s training materials, can be found on the Training page at oip.hawaii.gov. For the latest open government news, ...
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The State Office of Information Practices has been hard at work updating its training materials due to statutory changes as well as important new caselaw, which have been described in earlier What’s New articles. Over the last several days, materials have been newly posted or shifted around on OIP’s website to revise or add the ...
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The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted on its Opinions page at oip.hawaii.gov two new significant opinions—one from the Hawaii Supreme Court and the other from the U.S. Supreme Court—which affect Hawaii’s Sunshine Law and the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), respectively. A unanimous Hawaii Supreme Court provided a detailed analysis of ...
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Time for a new Log! Since the new fiscal year began on July 1, 2018, the Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to remind agencies to start a new FY 2020 UIPA Record Request Log. While agencies still have some time to complete record requests that were received through June 30, 2018 and ...
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