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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What’s New
As of March 2023, the State Disability and Communication Access Board (DCAB) revised its instructions for Sunshine Law boards to use on meeting notices for anyone requesting disability accommodation. Therefore, the State Office of Information Practices (OIP) posted DCAB’s revised instructions on its Sunshine Law training materials, including the “good agenda” in the Basic Sunshine Law ...
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Sunshine Week is the time to get the facts about what Hawai`i’s Office of Information Practices (OIP) does to ensure public participation in State and county government via two important laws that it administers: the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA) mandating public access to government records, and the Sunshine Law requiring open meetings of government ...
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Congratulations to Kauai County, Hawaii County, the Department of Accounting and General Services, and all others who have submitted their FY 2023 semiannual UIPA Record Request Logs and Checklists to the Office of Information Practices (OIP). Please remember to close out your agency’s fiscal year 2023 semiannual UIPA Record Request Log and send your semiannual ...
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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 ...
Read More AS 2022 ENDS, CLOSE YOUR SEMIANNUAL LOG
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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