Open Records - Guide To Hawaii'S Uniform Information Practices Act - Office Of Information Practices - 2015 Page 54

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PART III. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL RECORDS
Section
92F-21 INDIVIDUAL’S ACCESS TO OWN PERSONAL RECORD
92F-21.5 REPEALED
92F-22 EXEMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS ON INDIVIDUAL ACCESS
92F-23 ACCESS TO PERSONAL RECORD; INITIAL PROCEDURE
92F-24 RIGHT TO CORRECT PERSONAL RECORD;
INITIAL PROCEDURE
92F-25 CORRECTION AND AMENDMENT; REVIEW PROCEDURES
92F-26 RULES
92F-27 CIVIL ACTIONS AND REMEDIES
92F-27.5 ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO APPEAL A DENIAL OF
ACCESS
92F-28 ACCESS TO PERSONAL RECORDS BY ORDER IN JUDICIAL
OR ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS; ACCESS AS
AUTHORIZED OR REQUIRED BY OTHER LAW
PART IV. OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES; DUTIES
92F-41 OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES; ESTABLISHED
92F-42 POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION
PRACTICES
92F-43 AGENCY APPEAL OF A DECISION BY THE OFFICE OF
INFORMATION PRACTICES
PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS
[§92F-1] Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Uni-
form Information Practices Act (Modifi ed). [L 1988, c 262, pt of §1]
[§92F-2] Purposes; rules of construction. In a democracy, the people are
vested with the ultimate decision-making power. Government agencies exist to
aid the people in the formation and conduct of public policy. Opening up the
government processes to public scrutiny and participation is the only viable and
reasonable method of protecting the public’s interest. Therefore the legislature
declares that it is the policy of this State that the formation and conduct of public
policy—the discussions, deliberations, decisions, and action of government
agencies—shall be conducted as openly as possible.
The policy of conducting government business as openly as possible must be
tempered by a recognition of the right of the people to privacy, as embodied in
section 6 and section 7 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.
This chapter shall be applied and construed to promote its underlying purposes
and policies, which are to:
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