Visit the State Calendar to view meeting notices of state boards and commissions. Please note: the State Calendar is maintained by the Department of Accounting and General Services. See Executive Memo 11-11 (September 15, 2011) regarding “Posting Meeting Notices on the State Online Calendar.”
What’s New
Finally, please don’t forget to participate in OIP’s online survey. We want to hear from you! To serve you better and to more effectively utilize our limited resources, the Office of Information Practices is asking users to participate in anonline survey. The survey should take only five to ten minutes to complete. Because OIP would ...
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The Office of Information Practices (OIP) has revised its Personnel Guidelines (effective September 7, 2011) to assist state and county agencies in understanding what employment records must be disclosed under the Uniform Information Practices Act.
Flyer: September 30 – October 1 HILO flyer (pdf)Registration is now closed for the HILO seminars. Course #1 (Open Records): UIPA Manual; UIPA cover;Shrimp Board records; UIPA Powerpoint Handout; OIP’s August 2011 newsletter; Evaluation;CLE Certificate of Attendance. Course #2 (Open Meetings): Sunshine Guide for state and county boards; Sunshine Guide cover; Shrimp Board bad agenda; Shrimp Board good agenda; Sunshine Powerpoint Handout;OIP’s August 2011 newsletter Evaluation; CLE Certificate of Attendance. Courses ...
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What’s New: Tweeted Information RequestsAre Valid in the United Kingdom To tweet or not to tweet – the question facing government agencies worldwide. If they choose to tweet, public authorities in England have recently been told that they must respond to records requests sent via government agencies’ Twitter accounts. To link to the article, click here.
The Office of Information Practices (OIP) is pleased to present free seminars providing legal education credits on the open government laws inHonolulu on Wednesday, September 28; in Hilo, on Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1; and in Kona on Friday, October 21, 2011. Attorneys can earn one mandatory continuing professional education (MCPE) credit for one course, and possibly ...
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August 2011Q&A: OIP Facts (including: What does OIP do? What resources does OIP have to do its job? What are OIP’s priorities? What’s new at OIP? How does OIP obtain compliance? What happens if an agency refuses to comply? Can agencies appeal in court to challenge an OIP opinion?)
OIP now has a one-hour training video: “Introduction to the Sunshine Law” for board and commission members, and also of interest to the public. You can view the training video here, or go to OIP’s new training page for additional guides and training materials. Hawaii State Office Of Information Practices from Mark Wolf on Vimeo. Once the video begins playing, you ...
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OIP administers Hawaii’s open government laws: the Uniform Information Practices Act (“UIPA,” Chapter 92F, H.R.S.) mandating open access to public records and the “Sunshine Law” (Part I of Chapter 92, H.R.S.) requiring open public meetings. OIP also maintains the Records Report System, which is an internet database identifying over 27,000 titles of records maintained by ...
Read More What’s New Press Release: July 19, 2011- The Raw Truth
Utah: HB477 and Utah’s open government law … On March 25, 2011, after a special session, Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert repealed a controversial bill that had been passed by the Legislature on March 7 and signed by him on March 8. HB 477 would have changed the state’s Government Records Access and Management Act ...
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