As calendar year 2020 comes to an end, the state Office of Information Practices would like to remind all agencies that they should close out their fiscal year 2021 semiannual Log reports that are due to OIP by January 31, 2021. All government agencies should close out the first half of the FY 2021 by ...
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What’s New
The State Office of Information Practices has posted its Annual Report for FY 2020 on the Reports page of its website. Despite the temporary suspension of its powers due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Governor’s emergency orders, OIP continued to work and ended FY 2020 with the lowest number of pending formal cases in ...
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The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) congratulates all newly elected and reelected members of Hawaii’s Legislature, county Councils, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA)! This also seems to be an appropriate time to point out that UIPA and Sunshine Law training is available on OIP’s website, along with an archive of past What’s ...
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Once again, the State Office of Information Practices (OIP) thanks everyone who provided comments on its proposal to amend the Sunshine Law to allow boards to conduct what have been popularly referred to as “virtual” meetings, which our latest proposal now refers to as “remote” meetings. OIP has received many good comments, and a third ...
Read More OIP POSTS THIRD DRAFT OF SUNSHINE LAW PROPOSAL
Congratulations to the State Office of Information Practices’ Administrative Assistant, Zoe Abrams, on her marriage! This joyful news about Zoe, however, means that she has moved to the mainland and has had to leave OIP. We miss her a lot! Unfortunately, with the State’s hiring freeze and anticipated budget cuts and furloughs, OIP is uncertain ...
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The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) thanks everyone who provided comments on potential virtual meeting legislation and has now posted its latest draft and the justification sheet summarizing the proposal on the Legislation page at oip.hawaii.gov. Please keep in mind that this proposal is intended to be a permanent change to the Sunshine Law ...
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With so much misinformation, as well as deliberate disinformation campaigns by foreign agents and special interest groups, in our world today, the state Office of Information Practices urges all government agencies to do what they can to combat falsehoods and be the source of truth in government. One way to easily do this is by ...
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Hawaii’s Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA), Chapter 92F, HRS, was amended to require the disclosure of police officers’ suspension information to be treated the same as for other government employees. Act 47 was signed into law by Governor David Ige on September 15, 2020, and enacts HB 285, HD 1, SD 1, CD 1. Among ...
Read More BILL ENACTED TO TREAT POLICE OFFICERS’ DISCIPLINARY RECORDS THE SAME AS OTHER GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES’ RECORDS
The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) is pleased to announce that it has posted the entire four-volume set of the Report of the Governor’s Committee on Public Records and Privacy (December 1987) on its new Legislation page. This Report was the basis for the adoption of Hawaii’s Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA), Chapter 92F, ...
Read More ENTIRE GOVERNOR’S REPORT POSTED
The state Office of Information Practices posted its first three opinions of FY 2021 on its Opinions page, along with the first of four volumes of the Report of the Governor’s Committee on Public Records and Privacy on its Legislation page at oip.hawaii.gov. In formal opinion F21-01, OIP found that the requested closing agreements are ...
Read More OIP POSTS THREE NEW OPINIONS AND THE GOVERNOR’S REPORT