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Read More THE FACTS ABOUT RECORD REQUEST FEES AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST WAIVER   Civil Beat has published a number of subjective opinion pieces about the record request fee caps and public interest waivers in HB ...
Read More THE FACTS ABOUT RECORD REQUEST FEES AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST WAIVER

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Read More THE FACTS ABOUT THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES   Despite the important role the Office of Information Practices (OIP) plays for Hawaii’s open record and open meeting ...
Read More THE FACTS ABOUT THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) issued a new formal opinion regarding the redaction of information from the Offendertrak correctional directory maintained by the Department of Public Safety (PSD).  OIP Opinion Letter No. F23-02 is now posted on the Formal Opinions page at oip.hawaii.gov. Before the appeal was filed, PSD had initially quoted a ...
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F23-02

Posted on Apr 14, 2023 in Formal Opinions

Inmate Database Information

OIP Posts Two New Opinions

Posted on Apr 5, 2023 in Featured, What's New

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted the summaries of two new memorandum opinions concluding that agencies were absolved under the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA) from conducting searches for records that they actually knew did not exist. In U Memo 23-03, the requester sought from the Bureau of Conveyances (BOC) copies of ...
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