Time for a Legislative Overhaul to Forward Hawaii Government Transparency

From Sunshine Review

July 24, 2008

[edit] Time for a Legislative Overhaul to Forward Hawaii Government Transparency

"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."

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