Hawaii wouldn’t even need an Office of Information Practices, if public servants simply followed the open-government intent of state law. Instead, the overworked, underfunded and understaffed OIP office sucks up more than $500,000 a year in additional public funds, including employing five staff attorneys. It gives the appearance of the state having an established mechanism for […]
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