They would not reply as they did if they were not there. Believe me, getting them to admit that statutory denial was not easy. Leo had quite the back and forth with them on it, he really had to pin them down and call them on the parsing of their language. I know, I have seen at least some of the emails involved.
I reviewed all of them and they refused,according to him, to obey the Hawaii state version of the Freedom of Information Act. His blog said that there was an administrative appeal by another man he called, I believe, Kevin and now his blog has gone dark so it is not clear what has happened. It seemed like a promising avenue of inquiry. It is unfortunate that he has not followed through and let us know what has happened.