Sep 24 2009
Hawaii DOH Implicated In Extensive Coverup of Obama’s Records
Leo Donofrio, Esq., Attorney, Musician & poker player
Leo Donofiro, an attorney from New Jersey is working with an investigator who has revealed that the two officials, DOH Director Chiyome Fukino and Communications Director Janice Akubo have “egregiously” misdirected any attempts to reveal Barack Obama’s “vital records.”
The officials referred to Statute 338 HRS, but did not refer to a subsection, 338-18(d) that allows “index records” to be revealed to the public: “(d) Index data consisting of name and sex of the registrant, type of vital event, and such other data as the director may authorize shall be made available to the public.” Without exception.
There is also an Opinion Letter by Hawaiian Attorney, Office of Information Practices corroborating this. in spite of this, Fukino issued a statement on 8/06/2009 (via email).
From: “Fukino, Chiyome L.”
Date: August 6, 2009 3:54:02 PM EDT
To: [MissTickly, real name and email redacted] oip@hawaii.gov
Subject: RE: Appeal for urgencyDear [TerriK (real name redacted)],
State law prohibits the Department of Health from disclosing any information about a Hawaii vital record unless the requestor has a direct and tangible interest in the record. This includes verification of vital records and all the information contained in a record. For information on the law that governs vital records in the State of Hawaii, please refer to HRS §338 at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/…Sincerely,
Chiyome L. Fukino, MD
Director
Hawaii State Department of Health
You can understand how this is a false statement. A month later, Janice Okubo replied in much the same way, stating “neither a birth certificate nor any information related to a birth certificate may be disclosed to a person who does not have a direct and tangible interest in it.”
Furthermore, in April, 2007, the OIP attorney, Cathy Takase, concluded, officially, that “an individual has no privacy interest in information that the Department of Health has already made available to the public.” Since Obama has already posted his COLB online, and, supposedly, DOH “verified” it, , then, accordingly, he “has no privacy interest.” Therefore, according to “UIPA at 92F-12(15) and Haw. Rev. Stat. 338-18(d),” the information should be disclosed to the public in “redacted” form ( minus social security #).
Furthermore, TerriK noticed that when Fukino made her statement she referred to “vital records” in the plural, indicating that there were amendments to the original, such as adoption, changes of citizenship, etc. Mr. Donofrio concludes that officials at Hawaii’s Department of Health “blatantly opposed to the Hawaii legislature’s intention of “open government and public participation”.
