Open Records - Guide To Hawaii'S Uniform Information Practices Act - Office Of Information Practices - 2015 Page 4
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69I.
INTRODUCTION
All political power of this State is inherent in the people
and the responsibility for the exercise thereof rests with the
people. All government is founded on this authority.
Hawaii State Constitution, article I, section 1
In 1988, the Hawaii State Legislature enacted the Uniform
Information Practices Act (Modifi ed) (“UIPA”) based upon the
premise that a democracy vests the people with the ultimate
decision-making power and government exists only to aid the
people in the exercise of that power.
Recognizing public scrutiny and participation to be essential to
the exercise of that power, the Legislature declared it to be the
policy of this state to conduct government as openly as possible,
tempered by the right of the people to privacy as embodied in
our state constitution. To that end, the UIPA mandates that all
government records be open to public inspection unless access is
specifi cally restricted or closed by law.
The Offi ce of Information Practices (“OIP”) was also created in
1988 to implement the UIPA and to serve as a resource for both
the public and government agencies in interpreting and applying
the law’s provisions.
We are pleased to provide you with this UIPA handbook, which
is intended to provide the public and the non-lawyer agency
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