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PING, THE CONTEST GOES UP ONE MORE NOTCH

If I'm not mistaken, John Carlton from the Post and Email has submitted numerous requests as well. I would imagine there are other citizens across the country who have/are submitting requests as well. Therefore, while "50 a month" may be an exaggeration, I'm sure she is getting many per month.

Not that that means they need to try and circumvent their own laws though. Just sayin...

Read the text on this thing. Hilarious, if it wasn’t so chilling. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/bills/SB2937_.pdf

Particularly one of the things that is noted as helping to establish a pattern of “vexatious” behavior:

-(5) Institution of proceedings under this chapter,
including appealing requests or submitting complaints
or investigation requests, without a reasonable
ground, or to accomplish an objective unrelated to the
purpose of the proceedings;

Proof right there that Espero is mad, mad, mad about my request for an official investigation of CORRUPTION IN THE GOVERNMENT - which is the primary reason they have open records laws in the first place.

This is an attempt to undo the open records law whenever somebody gets a little too close to home for the corrupt controllers in Hawaii.

This should be broadcast all over.

We knew after a short time of dealing with the DOH and OIP that they were not going to give us what is legally required. That is when, for me, it became an issue of government corruption and the failure of law enforcement. To say that my request for an investigation of illegal activity by government officials means that I should be allowed to be ignored is absolutely a violation of the spirit and letter of the UIPA law.

I need to note here also - this bill doesn’t just apply to the DOH. This bill allows ANY AGENCY to get rid of people who get too close to knowing the truth.

This absolutely needs to be broadcast all over. They are trying to effectively undo the open records law.

Allowing the OIP to determine who is a “vexatious requestor” is particularly chilling, given that the OIP itself has been mentioned in my official request as needing to be investigated.

And one last thing. The DOH and OIP both are already able to ignore “vexatious” requests - they simply refuse to acknowledge that they’ve ever received the request and then say they never got it. Both groups have done this to me.