Alfred Itamura at the Ombudsman’s Office is supposedly checking into whether they have illegally destroyed it or lied when they said it doesn’t exist.
Don’t hold your breath.
But I did get an OIP Attorney to say that the part of UIPA that allows them to ignore Hawaii’s disclosure laws if federal funding would be jeopardized does NOT justify lying about whether the records exist. So if they did lie about the original paper index not existing, they have no legal excuse for it.
Nope, not holding my breath. That index will never see the light of day. He had to make it disappear because it’s part of the messy, messy paper trail. Funny how every Courthouse in the nation has all their birth record books and indexes prior to statehood... except Hawaii.
I still think a good chunk of those billions of stimulus dollars have gone to cleaning his records and keeping mouths shut here and around the world. I also suspect that when it’s all said and done that NBC-cide will far exceed the bodies associated with Arkancide.