Hawaii
Hawaii Uniform Information Practices Act
HRS § 92F-1 et seq.
Public records law for Hawaii. Covers state agencies, counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts.
The clock
10 business days
10 business days to disclose or acknowledge; 20 business days to complete.
Statutory: 10 business days to disclose or acknowledge; 20 business days to complete.. Actual medians vary widely by agency and request complexity; simple requests often 7-30 days, complex 60-300+.
Reading the statute itself
The text of this one is not reproduced here. The United States Code carries no copyright, so federal FOIA is printed on this site in full; the fifty state codes are published by fifty legislatures under their own claims of compilation copyright, so they are linked instead. Everything on this page — the deadline, the appeal path, the fee-waiver standard — is Aletheca’s summary of that text, and the official source is one click away.
If they refuse
- Appeal deadline
- Not specified
- Appeal route
- Appeal to Office of Information Practices (OIP) within 1 year; OIP opinions binding unless appealed.
- Litigation
- Not specified
Fees and expedition
Quirks worth knowing
OIP is effective admin appeal; agencies must justify denials to OIP.