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The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted at oip.hawaii.gov two new reports of the State and county agencies’ UIPA Record Request Year-End Logs for FY 2022, which show many similarities between the overall results for the State and counties. State agencies completed 95.8% of the 2,247 total requests they received in FY 2022 ...
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The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has revised the Notice to Requester (NTR) form to be used in responding to UIPA record requests.  The form was revised to make it clearer that requesters should be asking questions about their requests and sending any necessary payments directly to the agency, and not to OIP unless ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Calendar Changes

Posted on Nov 30, 2022 in Featured, What's New

The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted on its website direct links to each county’s calendar listing board and commission meetings and other events.  Additionally, due to increased spam problems, the State Calendar was revised to discontinue the use of the [email protected] email address.   NIC Hawaii’s new email address will be shown to ...
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The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has updated its subject-matter index for its formal opinions regarding the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA), which may be accessed through the Opinions page at oip.hawaii.gov. Only formal opinions are indexed by OIP, with separate indices for UIPA and Sunshine Law cases.  OIP has posted its updated UIPA ...
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The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has posted on the SCR 192 webpage at oip.hawaii.gov the testimony and meeting recorded on October 4, 2022 regarding draft legislation that seeks to improve government decision-making. Pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution 192 (SCR 192), the draft legislation was developed by a Working Group consisting of representatives from ...
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