Information Lockdown At Hawaii Labor Department Stymies Coronavirus Stories
Honolulu Agrees To Post Financial Disclosures Online
Monday, March 2Honolulu Ethics Commission Scrubs Financial Disclosures From Website
Names, Ranks And Salaries Of Honolulu Cops Are Still Secret
Education Officials Are Keeping Teacher Misconduct A Secret
How HART Tried — And Failed — To Keep Rail Records Secret
State Hides Work History Of Former Cop Charged With Sex Assault
Hawaii Prison Officials Say It Will Cost $23,000 For Public Records
What Happens When A Cop Goes On Desk Duty?
What’s The Honolulu Board of Water Supply Trying To Hide?
Not So Public: Hey DLNR, We’re Still Waiting For That Info On Commercial Tours
Tuesday, April 5Why Was Ethics Director Suspended? Report Offers Few Details
Not So Public: Hawaii Withholds Prison Death Records, Gets Sued
Not So Public: Open Records Agency Takes Up Our Appeal, 1 Year Later
Not So Public: Recipients of Hawaii Film Tax Credits Under Wraps
Wednesday, March 7Not So Public: When Emails Brought Down Hawaii Official
Not So Public: Auditor Stonewalled On Prison Job
Tuesday, February 14Not So Public: Hawaii Agency Wants $123,000 To Review Records
Civil Beat tried to pursue stories about workers in unsafe conditions or denied workers’ compensation claims, but the state labor department says it’s too busy to answer questions.
The city decided to make the forms more easily available following a Civil Beat report earlier this week.
The records are now only available for inspection at Honolulu Hale and officials are charging for copies — even if that’s just taking photos with your phone.
Legal challenges from Hawaii’s police union have prevented the public release of the identities of almost 2,000 sworn officers.
Information on bad teachers, including details of misconduct and current status, is hard to get in Hawaii, despite a state law requiring its release.
The agency fought to keep the public from knowing what the Utah Transit Authority found during a study. So we got the records from Utah — in four days.
But state law requires disclosure of detailed information about a public employee’s job qualifications.
Eight months after we asked, the state wants big bucks for records pertaining to violence at an Arizona prison.
The department refuses to disclose portions of many of its policies to the public, including the one on use of force.