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Current and past issues of Openline (pdf),
the newsletter
of the Office of Information Practices, State of Hawaii:
Sunshine Law Quiz: Test Your Knowledge; Sunshine Law Help on OIP's
Website
Q&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 Looks to the Future: 2012 Legislative Proposals; Governor Appoints
New Director: Cheryl Kakazu Park; OIP Offers New Training: MCPE
Credits for Attorneys and Board Training Sessions; OIP Updates Its
Guides
2011 Legislature: Bills of Interest; Summaries of OIP Formal Opinion
Letters (Workers' Compensation Records; Traffic Accident Data);
Summaries of OIP Informal Opinion Letters (Unemployment Insurance
Benefits Records)
Summaries of OIP Formal Opinion Letters (Ethics Commission Opinions;
Settlement Proceeds Paid by County's Private Insurers; Form of Record;
Limitation on Employer Actions; RICO Investigative Records); Reminder:
Legislation Affecting the UIPA or Sunshine Law; Access or Not?:
Data Maintained on Excel Worksheet or in a Word Document
2011 Legislative Session: Got Legislation? (Seek OIP Guidance Before
Submitting Bills Affecting Boards or Records); Invitation to Boards
(Bill to Allow Members to Hear Testimony When Meeting Must Be Cancelled);
OIP Welcomes E-mail Transmittals
Summary of OIP Formal Opinion Letter (Hawaiian Humane Society as
Agency; Animal Control Enforcement Records); Summaries of OIP Informal
Opinion Letters (Hawaii Access to Justice Commission Subject to
UIPA; and Unemployment Insurance Benefits Hearing Transcript); OpenPoint:
Agency or Not?; OIP Welcomes E-mail Transmittals
2010 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices (New Laws: UIPA;
Sunshine Law) (Bills that Failed)
Summary of OIP Opinion Letter (Protests Filed on RFPs); OpenPoint:
Procurement Records
OIP Bills Pending for the 2010 Legislative Session; OIP Bids Aloha
to Director Paul Tsukiyama; Recent OIP Announcements (Notice Regarding
Furlough Days, Effect of Current Budget Restrictions on OIP Operations,
Recent Court Ruling Regarding Disclosure of Executive Meeting Minutes)
2009 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices (Bills Proposed
by OIP, Other Sunshine Law Bills; Other UIPA Bills); OIP Informal
Opinion Letters
2009 Legislature: Sunshine Law Bills (Receiving Testimony or Presentations
Without a Quorum; Concurrence for Emergency Meetings; Electronic
Filing of Meeting Notices on State Calendar); OIP Annual Report
2008
Summaries of Recent OIP Opinions (Boards Created by Resolution;
Council Member Participation at Committee Meetings When Not Assigned
to the Committee); Recent Additions to OIP's Website (Acts 20 and
153; New Form to Seek OIP Limited Meeting Concurrence; Executive
Memorandum 08-06; State Calendar; Overview of the Website); OIP
to Distribute OpenLine by E-mail
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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