Thursday, February 18, 2010

The COVER-UP continues...write to Governor Lingle today!...

Okubo gives false UIPA response to The Post & Email

The Post & Email

THE POST & EMAIL DEMANDS A PUBLIC INVESTIGATION
by John Charlton
© 2009/2010

Passenger List of the U.S.S. Breckenridge, 1949. (Click to view full size)(Feb. 18, 2010) — The credibility of Janice S. Okubo, Communications Director of the Hawaii Department of Health, is in question this morning, as The Post & Email discloses documents showing that she gave patently false information in response to a freedom of information request made in accord with Hawaii’s Uniform Information Practices Act.

That Act states in Section §92F-2, “Purposes:; rules of construction:”

In a democracy, the people are vested with the ultimate decision-making power. Government agencies exist to aid the people in the formation and conduct of public policy. Opening up the government processes to public scrutiny and participation is the only viable and reasonable method of protecting the public’s interest. Therefore the legislature declares that it is the policy of this State that the formation and conduct of public policy—the discussions, deliberations, decisions, and action of government agencies—shall be conducted as openly as possible.

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