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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 separate spreadsheet as your semiannual Log to send to OIP, and to continue with your ...
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OIP Posts ICT Report

Posted on Dec 27, 2022 in Featured, What's New

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 to the Sunshine Law to allow the use of remote meetings. ICT may be used ...
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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 after COVID shutdowns apparently resulted in substantial increases in the total number of new formal ...
Read More OIP POSTS ITS FY 2022 ANNUAL REPORT

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 SCR 192 Working Group,” which has been delivered to the Legislature and posted on the ...
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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 requester that it did not maintain copies of non-existent documents that included the home addresses ...
Read More OIP’s New Opinions and Revised Training and Indices

F23-01

Posted on Dec 12, 2022 in Formal Opinions

Permitted Interactions; Interactive Conference Technology; Board Packets; and Related Sunshine Law Questions