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Current and past issues of Openline (pdf), the newsletter
of the Office of Information Practices, State of Hawaii:

January 2010
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)

June 2009
2009 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices (Bills Proposed by OIP, Other Sunshine Law Bills; Other UIPA Bills); OIP Informal Opinion Letters

February 2009
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

November 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

August 2008
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

May 2008
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

April 2008
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)

January 2008
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

October 2007
OpenPoint: Information Regarding Government Employee Misconduct; Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Employee Misconduct Information; Personal Information in Land Records)

June-July 2007
Aloha to Director Kondo; OpenPoint: Fees and Waivers; Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Energy Infrastructure Security; Agenda Sufficiency)

April-May 2007
2007 Legislature Review; Sunshine Week 2007 Recap; Summaries of Recent OIP Opinion Letters (Firearm Permit Information; Motions to Reconsider; Public Testimony)

October-November 2006
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

August-September 2006
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

April-July 2006
Legislative Wrap-Up; UIPA Agency Audit; Finance Investigative Task Force; Student-Athlete Drug Testing Records; Records Report Update Reminder

January-March 2006
National Sunshine Law Week; 2006 Legislative Session; Court Affirms OIP Opinion on Serial Communications; UH Library's Plantation Archives

October-December 2005
Sunshine Law & UIPA Workshops; Serial One-on-One Communications; UIPA Reference Handbook Announcement; Emergency 911 Tape; CVCC Criminal Case Records

September 2005
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)

June 2005
2005 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices; Model Forms on the OIP Website; Recent OIP Opinion (University of Hawaii Campus Security Records); Staff Update

April-May 2005
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

January-March 2005
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

October 2004
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

August-September 2004
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

July 2004
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

May-June 2004
2004 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices; Sunshine Training for Boards and Commissions Set for August; Staff Update

April 2004
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

March 2004
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)

January-February 2004
OIP Bills Affecting Information Practices and Open Meetings; OIP Opinions (Legislative Testimony Polling; Office of Disciplinary Counsel and Disciplinary Board)

December 2003
Highlights from the 2003 Annual Report; New Year's Wishes

November 2003
Interagency Sharing of Records: What You Should Know; OIP Opinions on Interagency Disclosure;
OIP Opinion (Closed Investigation of Deputy Attorney General)

October 2003
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

September 2003
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

August 2003
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

July 2003
HIPAA Rules and the UIPA: A Short Guide; HIPAA Information on the Internet; OIP Opinion (Kauai Planning Commission and Subdivision Committee Meetings); Staff Update

June 2003
OIP Guidance: Open Meetings: Notices, Agendas, & Testimony; Electronic Transmission of Testimony; OIP Opinion (Voting in Executive Meetings); Staff Update

May 2003
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)

April 2003
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

January-March 2003
Governor Appoints New Director: Les Kondo; 2003 Legislative Update: Bills Affecting Information Practices; OIP Opinion (Attorney-Client Privilege); Staff Update

December 2002
Highlights from the 2002 Annual Report; Investigation: Responding to Requests; New Year's Wishes

November 2002
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

October 2002
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)

September 2002
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

August 2002
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?)

July 2002
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

June 2002
Deadlines to Remember: The Clock Is Ticking!; OIP Opinion (Limits on Oral Testimony at County Council Meetings); Photocopy Charges; Staff Update

May 2002
2002 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices; OIP Guidance on Disclosure of Agency Records and Information to Auditors

April 2002
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

January-March 2002
2002 Legislative Update: Bills Affecting Information Practcies; Terrorism, Security, and the UIPA's Frustration Exception

December 2001
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

November 2001
OIP's Attorney of the Day Service; OIP Opinion (Disclosure of Sexual Harassment Complaint Investigation Records)

October 2001
Hawaii County Receives UIPA and Sunshine Training; OIP Opinion (Disclosure of Inmate Information); OIP Guidance: Disclosure of HIV and AIDS Status; Staff Update

September 2001
Fielding Record Requests; Model Forms; Visit Us On the Web; A Message from the Director

July 2001
Personnel Records vs. Personal Records; Hollywood Mystery: Who Stole Florida Police Data?; Privacy of Health Care Information

June 2001
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

May 2001
2001 Legislative Wrap-Up: Information Practices; OIP Opinion (Historic Preservations Records Public); Staff Update

July-August 2000
Medical Records Privacy Law: Update; Recent OIP Opinions (Public Disclosure of Legislative Materials; DHS Fair Hearing Decisions); Notes from the Editor

April-June 2000
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

January-March 2000
2000 Legislative Update: Bills Affecting Information Practices

November-December 1999
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

October 1999
Open Meetings; Timely Access; Privacy Study; OIP Opinion (Attempted Disclosure of Government Record While OIP Opinion Is Pending)

September 1999
OIP and State Libraries Promote Public Access; New OIP Publications; Staff Update

August 1999
New Model Forms for Record Requests and Responses; Frequent Inquiries: Record Requests, Fees, Photocopies; Act 87 Protects Privacy of Health Care Information

June-July 1999
Privacy of Health Care Information; Public Official Jailed for Public Records Law Violation in Florida; OIP Opinion (DLNR Vessel Registartion Application Forms); Staff Update

May 1999
1999 Legislative Wrap-Up; Staff Update

April 1999
Quick Guide to the New OIP Rules; OIP Opinion (Disclosure of Police Reports); Staff Update

March 1999
1999 Legislative Update: Bills Affecting Information Practices; OIP Opinion (Disclosure of Employee Misconduct Records)

January-February 1999
New Rules Take Effect February 26; Q&A: Charges for Photocopies; Bills Affecting Photocopy Charges; Highlights from OIP's Annual Report 1998

December 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

September 1998
Proposed Rules Amended, New Hearing Set; Attorney of the Day Service

August 1998
Public Hearing Scheduled for Proposed Rules; What's New at the OIP Web Site

July 1998
Mid-Summer Report from the Director; Staff Update

May-June 1998
1998 Legislative Wrap-Up; OIP Opinions (Disclosure of Hospital Eligible Charges; Attorney Work Product); Brief Notes

April 1998
Public Records Rules Approved for Public Hearing; Informational Briefings Set; New Web Site for OIP; What Are the Agencies' Responsibilities to Individuals?

March 1998
What Records Are Restricted or Closed by Law?; OIP Opinion (Honolulu Ethics Commission Advisory Opinions); Legislative Update; Staff Update

February 1998
Bills Affecting Information Practices

January 1998
Highlights from the 1997 Annual Report; OIP Opinions (Hawaii Natural Heritage Program Database; Experience Certificates in Applications for Contractors Licenses)

December 1997
The OIP Offers Legislative Assistance; OIP Internet Highlight Site: State Procurement Office; RRS Subsystem Information Report Required; New Year's Wishes; Staff Update

November 1997
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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