Current and past issues of Openline (pdf),
the monthly newsletter
of the Office of Information Practices, State of Hawaii:
State Boards Must Post Meeting Notices on State Calendar; Using
the State Calendar; 2008 Acts Affecting Sunshine Law: Act 20 - Board
Meeting Where Public Attendance Is Not Practicable; Act 153 - Special
Sunshine Exceptions for Neighborhood Boards
Recent Court Cases Under the UIPA and the Sunshine Law: Right to
Know Committee v. City Council; Olelo: The Corporation for Community
Television v. OIP
2008 Legislative Update; Welcome to New Staff Attorney Linden Joesting;
Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Police Blotter Information;
Right to Present Testimony; Applications for Permits to Enter Marine
Refuge)
Welcome to OIP's New Director Paul Tsukiyama; 2008 Legislative Preview;
OpenPoint: Steps Boards Should Take to Comply with the Sunshine
Law when Participating in the Legislative Process
OpenPoint: Information Regarding Government Employee Misconduct;
Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Employee Misconduct Information;
Personal Information in Land Records)
Aloha to Director Kondo; OpenPoint: Fees and Waivers; Summaries
of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Energy Infrastructure Security; Agenda
Sufficiency)
2007 Legislature Review; Sunshine Week 2007 Recap; Summaries of
Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Firearm Permit Information; Motions
to Reconsider; Public Testimony)
Sunshine Law and UIPA Presentation; Records Report System Training;
OpenPoint - Asking For A Requester's Identity; Disclosure of Executive
Meeting Minutes; Case Law From Other Jurisdictions
Sunshine Law & UIPA Training Announcement; OpenPoint - UIPA
Requests - Fees & Costs; Written Testimony Implicating Privacy
Interests of a Third Party; Amendment of Agenda; Meeting Notice
Filing Requirement
Legislative Wrap-Up; UIPA Agency Audit; Finance Investigative Task
Force; Student-Athlete Drug Testing Records; Records Report Update
Reminder
National Sunshine Law Week; 2006 Legislative Session; Court Affirms
OIP Opinion on Serial Communications; UH Library's Plantation Archives
Sunshine Law & UIPA Workshops; Serial One-on-One Communications;
UIPA Reference Handbook Announcement; Emergency 911 Tape; CVCC Criminal
Case Records
Recent OIP Opinions (Inmate Records & Regulations on Inmate
Access Rights; Samples of Live Organisms; Responses to Agency Survey;
Public Testimony When Non-Sunshine Law Requirements Apply; Closing
Building to the Public - Unreasonable Delay to Start of Public Meeting);
Staff Update
July-August 2005 - Vol. 17, No. 4 (No Newsletter)
2005 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices; Model Forms on
the OIP Website; Recent OIP Opinion (University of Hawaii Campus
Security Records); Staff Update
Summaries of Recent OIP Opinions (Traffic Accident Reports and Data;
Cellular Telephone Invoices; Speaking at Public meetings on Matters
Outside the Agenda; Executive Meetings to Interview Mayor's Appointees);
Staff Update
Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Charter Provision Providing
Greater Disclosure; Transcript of Administrative Hearing Protected
by Confidentiality Statute; Personal Calendars and Telephone Message
Slips Not Government Records; Records to be Provided in Requested
Format); OpenPoint: The Privacy Exception
Records Report System Now on the Internet; OIP Web Site: RRS Instructions,
User's Guide, and Link to the Database; Filing Meeting Notices With
Lieutenant Governor; OIP's Forms on the Internet; Staff Update
Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Disclosure of Intra-office
E-mail Messages; Disclosure of Forecasts Prepared by Staff; Disclosure
of Personal Information on Petitions and Nominating Papers; Disclosure
of List of Voters); OpenPoint: The Deliberative Process Privilege
Sunshine Law Workshop Scheduled for August 5; Sunshine Law on the
Internet; OIP's New Guide to the Sunshine Law Available Online;
Table of Statutes for OIP Opinion Letters; Recent OIP Opinion (Anonymous
Testimony and Liability for Disclosure of Records Containing Defamatory
Statements); Staff Update
2004 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices; Sunshine Training
for Boards and Commissions Set for August; Staff Update
Opinion Letter Summaries: UH, Tourism, Police Commission (Evaluation
and Expectations of University of Hawaii President; Tourism Data;
Honolulu Police Commission Records; Disclosure of Court Abstracts);
Distribution of Opinion Letters
Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Records of Deceased Persons;
Oversight Committee for the First Circuit Family court; Records
Pertaining to Kahana Valley State Park Interpretive Leases; Oahu
Island Burial Council; Views of Non-Board Members Included in Minutes)
OIP Bills Affecting Information Practices and Open Meetings; OIP
Opinions (Legislative Testimony Polling; Office of Disciplinary
Counsel and Disciplinary Board)
Highlights from the 2003 Annual Report; New Year's Wishes
Interagency Sharing of Records: What You Should Know; OIP Opinions
on Interagency Disclosure;
OIP Opinion (Closed Investigation of Deputy Attorney General)
What's New on the Web Site (Public Meeting Notice Checklist; Index
of Opinion Letters; Opinion Letter Summaries and Text); OIP Opinion
(Attorneys' Presence - Required to Accomplish the Essential Purposes
of an Executive Meeting); Executive Meeting Agendas
Public Employee Salaries and the UIPA: Disclosure of University's
Contract with Head Football Coach (OIP Opinion Letter No. 03-16),
Prior OIP Opinions on Public Salaries, Why Government Employee Salaries
Are Public; Clarification: Disclosure to Auditor
Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Police Department Mug Shots;
Charter Schools and the UIPA; Evidence from Pending Police Investigation
File; Attendance at Executive Meetings by Parties Other Than Council
or Board Members; Views of Non-Board Members Included in Minutes;
Disclosure of Grievance File to the Office of the Legislative Auditor);
Photocopy Charges
HIPAA Rules and the UIPA: A Short Guide; HIPAA Information on the
Internet; OIP Opinion (Kauai Planning Commission and Subdivision
Committee Meetings); Staff Update
OIP Guidance: Open Meetings: Notices, Agendas, & Testimony;
Electronic Transmission of Testimony; OIP Opinion (Voting in Executive
Meetings); Staff Update
2003 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices; Opinion Letter
Summaries Online; OIP Opinions ('Olelo Board Member's Resume; HIPAA
and Part II of the UIPA; Electronic Transmission of Testimony)
OIP's Web Site: New Look, Easy to Use; OIP Opinions (Sunshine Law:
Charter School Boards; Crime Victim Compensation Commission; Judicial
Selection Commission List of Nominees); New Openline Distribution
Governor Appoints New Director: Les Kondo; 2003 Legislative Update:
Bills Affecting Information Practices; OIP Opinion (Attorney-Client
Privilege); Staff Update
Highlights from the 2002 Annual Report; Investigation: Responding
to Requests; New Year's Wishes
Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Sunshine Law and County
Council Members Before Taking Office; Adjudicative Records of the
Judiciary; State's FAMIS Accounting System Subject to UIPA); On
Being Thankful; Staff Update; Next Month in Openline
Patsy Mink: Pioneer for Open Government; Farewell at the State Capitol;
OIP Opinions (Schedule of Maximum Allowable Medical Fees; Actions
on Bills and Resolutions Without Notice)
Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Availability of Minutes
of Open Meetings; PEG Access Organizations 'Olelo and Ho'ike Subject
to UIPA); Where to Find Opinion Letters
More States Create Open Records Agencies; FOI Information on the
Internet; OIP Opinion (Agency Maintenance of Records Submitted by
Private Entity; When Is a Person Not a Human Being?)
OIP Conducts Training for DLNR and DAGS; Minutes of Executive Meetings;
OIP Opinions (Records Protected from Disclosure by Court Order;
Reports of Real Property Interests Held or Acquired by Foreign Persons);
Staff Update; Next Month: Open Records in New Jersey
Deadlines to Remember: The Clock Is Ticking!; OIP Opinion (Limits
on Oral Testimony at County Council Meetings); Photocopy Charges;
Staff Update
2002 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices; OIP Guidance on
Disclosure of Agency Records and Information to Auditors
Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Public's Right to Testify; Routing Record
Requests Through an Agency's Executive; Request for Disclosure of
Settlement Agreement Between an Agency and a Private Party); OIP's
Latest Annual Report Available Online; Staff Update
2002 Legislative Update: Bills Affecting Information Practcies;
Terrorism, Security, and the UIPA's Frustration Exception
Meeting Notices and Agendas Now Online; Settlement Agreement Between
UH and Mouse Cloning Scientists: Public or Confidential?; OIP Opinion
(Attorney Work Product); New Year's Wishes
OIP's Attorney of the Day Service; OIP Opinion (Disclosure of Sexual
Harassment Complaint Investigation Records)
Hawaii County Receives UIPA and Sunshine Training; OIP Opinion (Disclosure
of Inmate Information); OIP Guidance: Disclosure of HIV and AIDS
Status; Staff Update
Fielding Record Requests; Model Forms; Visit Us On the Web; A Message
from the Director
Personnel Records vs. Personal Records; Hollywood Mystery: Who Stole
Florida Police Data?; Privacy of Health Care Information
Personal Government Records and the Law; OIP Opinions (Sunshine
Law Applied to Neighborhood Vision Teams; Real Property Tax Information
Made Confidential by Ordinance); OIP Notes
2001 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices; OIP Opinion (Historic
Preservations Records Public); Staff Update
Medical Records Privacy Law: Update; Recent OIP Opinions (Public
Disclosure of Legislative Materials; DHS Fair Hearing Decisions);
Notes from the Editor
2000 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices; Recent OIP Opinion
(Persons Named in Criminal Law Enforcement Investigations); We've
Moved!; Staff Update; Notes from the Editor
2000 Legislative Update: Bills Affecting Information Practices
Recent OIP Opinions (Building Permit Information; Seniors Mailing
List; Identity of Complainants to DOH; Identities of Complainants
to DLNR Harbor Staff); Open Meetings Law Online; Staff Update
Open Meetings; Timely Access; Privacy Study; OIP Opinion (Attempted
Disclosure of Government Record While OIP Opinion Is Pending)
OIP and State Libraries Promote Public Access; New OIP Publications;
Staff Update
New Model Forms for Record Requests and Responses; Frequent Inquiries:
Record Requests, Fees, Photocopies; Act 87 Protects Privacy of Health
Care Information
Privacy of Health Care Information; Public Official Jailed for Public
Records Law Violation in Florida; OIP Opinion (DLNR Vessel Registartion
Application Forms); Staff Update
1999 Legislative Wrap-Up; Staff Update
Quick Guide to the New OIP Rules; OIP Opinion (Disclosure of Police
Reports); Staff Update
1999 Legislative Update: Bills Affecting Information Practices;
OIP Opinion (Disclosure of Employee Misconduct Records)
New Rules Take Effect February 26; Q&A: Charges for Photocopies;
Bills Affecting Photocopy Charges; Highlights from OIP's Annual
Report 1998
Rules Adopted Pending Governor's Approval; OIP Guidance: Please
Identify Yourself; OIP Opinion (Monthly Outstanding Checks Reports;
Police Internal Affairs Investigation Reports); Mele Kalikimaka!;
Staff Update
Proposed Rules Amended, New Hearing Set; Attorney of the Day Service
Public Hearing Scheduled for Proposed Rules; What's New at the OIP
Web Site
Mid-Summer Report from the Director; Staff Update
1998 Legislative Wrap-Up; OIP Opinions (Disclosure of Hospital Eligible
Charges; Attorney Work Product); Brief Notes
Public Records Rules Approved for Public Hearing; Informational
Briefings Set; New Web Site for OIP; What Are the Agencies' Responsibilities
to Individuals?
What Records Are Restricted or Closed by Law?; OIP Opinion (Honolulu
Ethics Commission Advisory Opinions); Legislative Update; Staff
Update
Bills Affecting Information Practices
Highlights from the 1997 Annual Report; OIP Opinions (Hawaii Natural
Heritage Program Database; Experience Certificates in Applications
for Contractors Licenses)
The OIP Offers Legislative Assistance; OIP Internet Highlight Site:
State Procurement Office; RRS Subsystem Information Report Required;
New Year's Wishes; Staff Update
New Workshop in UIPA Basics; Records Not Available to the Public;
OIP Opinion (Requests for Government Records That Do Not Exist);
State of Hawaii Attorney General Opinion Letters Online; On Being
Thankful; Staff Update
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