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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What’s New
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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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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The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) is encouraging people to provide written or oral comments, which can be done anonymously, for the October 4, 2022 meeting regarding the attached draft legislation that seeks to improve government decisionmaking. As reported in OIP’s September 16, 2022 What’s New article, the draft legislation was developed by the ...
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The State Office of Information Practices (OIP) has been diligently working with members of the Working Group (WG) convened pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution 192 (SCR 192) to develop a new statutory exception to the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA) that would improve government decision-making. OIP and the WG are seeking public comments on the ...
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After the State Office of Information Practices (OIP) posted its updated Sunshine Law training materials in August 2022, it was informed that the State Disability Access and Communications Board (DCAB) had approved the following new sample language to request disability accommodation, which should be used on Sunshine Law meeting notices. If you need an auxiliary ...
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