A big MAHALO to the following agencies, which were the first to submit in July their year-end Logs and Checklists for FY 2020: City & County of Honolulu: City Clerk’s Office and City Auditor Hawaii County: Mayor’s Office, Corporation Counsel, and Human Resources DBEDT: State Energy Office Hawaii State Ethics Commission For agencies that still ...
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What’s New
Due to the deteriorating conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Mayor’s latest stay at home order, the state Office of Information Practices (OIP) will continue to telework and has closed its physical office. OIP will continue to work on its cases and provide timely Attorney of the Day services, which are best accessed ...
Read More OIP’S PHYSICAL OFFICE TO CLOSE
The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) has added a new page to its website at oip.hawaii.gov. On OIP’s new “Legislation” page, you will find a heading for “Important Pending and Recent Legislation.” Here, OIP has posted a draft bill that proposes to amend the Sunshine Law to allow boards to safely conduct board business ...
Read More VIRTUAL MEETING PROPOSAL POSTED ON OIP’S NEW “LEGISLATION” PAGE
The state Office of Information Practices (OIP) is thrilled to report the good news that it ended fiscal year 2020 with its lowest case backlog in over a decade. Despite the challenges presented by COVID-19, the temporary suspension of OIP’s duties and deadlines under the Governor’s emergency proclamations, and an 8.5% increase in new cases, ...
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Governor David Ige issued his 10th supplementary proclamation (SP 10) relating to the COVID-19 emergency on July 17, 2020. SP 10 extends the partial suspension of Hawaii’s Sunshine Law and Uniform Information Practices Act until August 31, 2020, unless terminated or extended by a separate proclamation, whichever occurs first. This partial suspension is found in ...
Read More GOVERNOR ISSUES 10th SUPPLEMENTAL PROCLAMATION
Despite the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19 and the temporary suspension of its powers, the state Office of Information Practices (OIP) continued to alternate telework with in-office time after reopening its physical office in June and finished FY 2020 with eight new opinions, bringing the total number of opinions written for the year to 24. The full ...
Read More OIP POSTS 8 OPINIONS TO END FY 2020
On July 6, 2020, the Legislature passed House Bill 285, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, C.D.1, Relating to Public Safety, which amends section 92F-14(b)(4), HRS, of the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA) to remove the special exemption from disclosure of suspended county police officers’ disciplinary records. The bill is pending before Governor David Ige. Upon enactment, ...
Read More 2020 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
It’s time for all state, county, and independent agencies to start a new Log! Since the new fiscal year began on July 1, 2020, the Office of Information Practices (OIP) would like to remind agencies to start a new FY 2021 UIPA Record Request Log. Due to the Governor’s emergency proclamations that suspended the deadlines ...
Read More ANOTHER NEW LOG YEAR!
Two bills supported by the state Office of Information Practices have been advanced during the legislative session that was reconvened on June 22, 2020. Senate Bill 2038, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, Relating to Board Members, was passed by the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. The original bill would permit two or more board members to attend ...
Read More LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS PROCEED
On June 16, 2020, the Hawaii Supreme Court (Court) issued a unanimous opinion in In Re Office of Information Practices Opinion Letter No. F16-01, which overturned decisions by the Second Circuit Court and Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) that had resulted in the dismissal of a complaint challenging a Sunshine Law opinion by the state ...
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