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The state government of Hawaii is modeled after the federal government with adaptations originating from the kingdom era of Hawaiian history. The current version of the Constitution of Hawaii features a preamble that states, "We, the people of the State of Hawaiʻi, grateful for Divine Guidance, and mindful of our Hawaiian heritage, reaffirm our belief in a government of the people, by the people and for the people, and with an understanding heart toward all peoples of the earth do hereby ordain and establish this constitution for the State of Hawaiʻi."
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City files suit over wastewater dispute
September 10, 2008: Mayor Mufi Hannemann's administration has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, demanding access to records that justify EPA's refusal to waive federal clean water standards for the city's two largest sewage treatment plants. Read the full article here.
Time for a Legislative Overhaul to Forward Hawaii Government Transparency
July 24, 2008: Hawaii’s UIPA/HAPA laws, which generally parallel the Federal FOIA/APA, offer our citizens the ability to actualize an important right, one absolutely critical to keeping a free society free, namely the right to know what their government is doing and why. Even though other worthy goals sometimes jostle with openness in government, such as privacy rights and non-interference with the legitimate functions of government, the bottom line is still that our citizens have a fundamental right to know, and that this is a presumptive right unburdened by any need to justify it. Read the full editorial here.
E-mail public documents get erased, disappear
July 14, 2008: Laws in all but a handful of states give the public access to government e-mail. But what if that e-mail was intentionally deleted or routinely purged?
In Hawaii, Gov. Linda Lingle's office allowed e-mails of her top aide to be purged. In North Carolina, Gov. Mike Easley's administration allegedly ordered state workers to delete their e-mail correspondence with his office. And in Missouri, lawsuits claim Gov. Matt Blunt's office deleted e-mails and ordered the destruction of backup e-mail tapes.
These and other cases raise concerns that millions of public records in the form of e-mails may be disappearing before anyone outside government can read them. Read the full article here.
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