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  Date / Time: 9/26/2009 9:53 PM UTC

  Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA)
  

  The state of Hawaii enacted the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA) as a means by which the public may have free and open access to all information maintained by the Government.  While some information is obviously restricted to protect the privacy of individuals, the intent of the statute is clear; to help the public access government held information.

  Page 9 of the UIPA Manual states:

  Given this direction that the UIPA be interpreted to promote open government, any doubt regarding disclosure of a record should likely be resolved in favor of access.

  Unfortunately, officials at the Hawaii Department of Health (DoH) have been using the statute for the opposite purpose it was intended.  This investigation will bear witness to blatant offensive abuses of the law which have clearly frustrated the purpose and scope of the statute, a statute intended to do just the opposite.

  The UIPA Manual states in its introduction:

  Democracy exists only when government functions in the open and protects the rights of its citizens to participate in that government. In 1988, the Hawaii State Legislature enacted the Uniform Information Practices Act (Modified) (the “UIPA”) to preserve and ensure that open government and public participation.

  At the same time, it created the Office of Information Practices (“OIP”) to implement the UIPA and to serve as a resource for both the public and government agencies in interpreting and applying its provisions. The Legislature recognized, however, that the “proper functioning of any public records law is very much dependent upon the attitude of those who implement the law[,]” requiring “strong and active agency implementation of the records laws.” The Legislature thus urged “all agencies to accept this new law as a challenge and a mandate to ensure public access to the public’s government.”

  Tactics used by Department of Health Director Fukino and Communications Director Okubo have frustrated the true intent of the UIPA.
  
  Whether intentional fraud was involved is an issue that must be looked into by law enforcement.
  

  DoH Director Fukino issued the following statement in a press release dated October 31, 2008:

  …I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.

  Eight months later, in a press release dated July 27, 2009, Director Fukino further stated:

  “I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawai‛i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai‘i and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”

  
  The second statement mentioned “original vital records” (plural), whereas the first statement only referred to a single record; an “original birth certificate”.  Any definition of natural born citizen must refer to parentage and/or place of birth, both of which should have been contained in the original birth certificate.
  
  Since Director Fukino viewed “vital records” in making her second public statement, it then can be assumed that President Obama’s original birth certificate had been amended and/or corrected – in that had it not been so changed, only the original birth certificate (singular) would have required access by Fukino rather than “vital records” (plural).
  
  Research into the UIPA also revealed that if Obama’s records had been amended, Obama was required by the UIPA statute to make preliminary UIPA requests himself – to see his own records and also to amend or correct them.

  UIPA requests are themselves government records maintained according to statute just as birth and other vital records are maintained.

  The public is entitled, with no exception provided by law, to examine all index data referred to in HRS 338-18(d) pertaining to each and every vital record on file in the state of Hawaii for President Obama.
  
  The actions of Director Fukino and Communications Director Okubo couldn’t be more blatantly opposed to the Hawaii legislature’s intention of “open government and public participation”.  Certainly, since these officials are familiar with these statutes, it appears some of their false statements were intentional.  Whether a pattern of fraud existed for the purpose of confounding genuine public investigations into government should be the subject of both disciplinary and criminal investigations.
  
  Report prepared by Leo C. Donofrio, Attorney.  Published on September 24, 2009.
  
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