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Opinion Letter No. 94-03
March 23, 1994
Campus Incident Reports Public
Daily Activity Reports, or "incident reports"
prepared by private campus security officers at the
University of Hawaii at Hilo campus, must be made public after information
identifying individuals
involved in campus incidents have been segregated from the reports.
In response to an opinion
request by the campus newspaper, which previously only received
summaries of the incident reports,
the OIP concluded that under the UIPA, the actual incident reports
must be made available for
inspection and copying upon request. Since the campus newspaper’s
UIPA request specifically
excluded individually identifiable information in the reports, the
OIP concluded that the reports would
not be protected from disclosure under the UIPA’s clearly
unwarranted invasion of personal privacy
exception.
The OIP also concluded that in the unusual circumstance
an incident report contains
information relevant to a civil or criminal law enforcement investigation,
and has been provided to a
law enforcement agency, the report may be withheld if a law enforcement
proceeding is pending or a
concrete possibility.
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