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Opinion Letter No. 90-21
June 20, 1990
Financial and Compliance Audit of Advocacy Agency
Portions of a financial and compliance audit report
on the Protection and Advocacy Agency of Hawaii
must be made available for public inspection and copying under the
UIPA. Portions of the report that
contain opinions, recommendations, and evaluations on policy matters
may be withheld by the agency
since this information is protected from disclosure by the "deliberative
process privilege." Disclosure of
information about individuals mentioned in the report would not
constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy, because the agency being audited performed
public purposes using
sizable public subsidies. The public interest in disclosure of this
information outweighs the privacy
interests of the individuals mentioned in the report.
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