Dear Ms. Engebretsen: I am the attorney of the day for the Office of Information Practices (OIP) and your inquiry has been forwarded to me. Your email inquiry is prefaced by, "As a follow up..." To be clear, are you referring to a prior request that was made to OIP? If yes, please know that OIP has not received any recent request for records or other inquiry from you prior to this email received on January 31, 2023. If you intended to submit a request for these records to OIP, kindly submit the written request at your earliest convenience. Should you need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us. Sincerely, Edith Feldman Staff Attorney Office of Information Practices State of Hawaii No. 1 Capitol District Building 250 S. Hotel Street, #107 Honolulu, HI 96813 Ph.: (808) 586-1400 Facsimile: (808) 586-1412 Email: <<email address>> Website: http://oip.hawaii.gov This e-mail has been sent under OIP’s “Attorney of the Day” (AOD) service. The AOD service allows anyone to ask an OIP attorney any UIPA or Sunshine Law question (chapter 92F, and part I of chapter 92, HRS). AOD advice is non-binding, general, informal guidance to the public and to agency and board personnel, and does not have the precedential value of OIP’s formal opinions.…

Dear Ms. Engebretsen, I have been assigned to respond to your request, so you may send any future correspondence concerning your request to my attention at the email address below. OIP received the attached record request on February 2, 2023. We do not have any record of receiving the request prior to that date. I am in the process of first searching for OIP's informal opinions in response to your request. In case you were not aware, you may use the UIPA index on OIP's website and do keyword searches to find UIPA formal opinions by topic at any time. If you would like to conduct your own searches using OIP's index, please let me know by February 10, as that could lower your record request fees. Thank you. Lori Kato Staff Attorney Office of Information Practices State of Hawai`i No. 1 Capitol District Building 250 S. Hotel Street, #107 Honolulu, HI 96813 Ph: (808) 586-1400 Facsimile: (808) 586-1412 Email: <<email address>> Website: http://oip.hawaii.gov…

Dear Ms. Engebretsen, This is written to confirm our telephone call on February 21, 2023, and to respond to your email below, as well as a separate one also dated February 21, 2023. You indicated that you first emailed your record request to OIP on January 25, 2023 from your email address below (UIPA.org address). However, as I explained during our call, OIP did not receive your request until February 2, 2023. OIP responded to your February 2 request by email dated February 15, 2023, which included OIP's Notice to Requester dated February 15, 2023 and responsive records. OIP granted your request in full at no charge to you. OIP's February 15 response (see attached) was timely and consistent with Hawaii Administrative Rules section 2-71-13(a)(2). Because you indicated that you had not received OIP's February 15 response as of February 21 (at your UIPA.org address), OIP resent you our February 15 response on February 21 to your government email address. Please note that OIP did not have your government email address until you sent it to us on February 21. Also, the email you sent OIP on February 21 indicated that OIP could provide you with only informal opinions responsive to your request. However, as I explained, OIP already compiled the formal and informal opinions that you requested and provided both on February 15 and again on February 21. Lori Kato Staff Attorney Office of Information Practice State of Hawai`i No. 1 Capitol District Building 250 S. Hotel Street, #107 Honolulu, HI 96813 Ph: (808) 586-1400 Facsimile: (808) 586-1412 Email: <<email address>> Website: http://oip.hawaii.gov…