Request For Assistance To Oip

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE TO THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES GOVERNMENT RECORDS DATE:

09-30-09

FROM:

Justin W. Riggs 5255 S. Grant Street Littleton, CO 80121 303-231-5234 (w) 303-781-1998 [email protected]

You are not required to provide any personal information; however, you should provide enough information to allow the Office of Information Practices (“OIP”) to contact you about this request (name or alias, telephone or fax number, mailing address, e-mail address, etc.). If the OIP is unable to contact you, the OIP will stop processing this request.

I HAVE REQUESTED THE FOLLOWING GOVERNMENT RECORD: Attach a copy of your written request to the agency; or describe the government record and your request as specifically as possible, including record name, subject matter, date, location, purpose, or names of persons to whom the record refers, or other descriptive information, and the date of your request and how it was made. Attach a second page if needed. Following is the text of my request (sent by email on 9/12/09): RECORDS REQUEST Ms. Roldan, At this time, I would like to submit a document request. HRS 11-113 refers to a sworn application that is filed by the appropriate official of the political party that the candidate is a member of. Pursuant to the state open records act, I request access to and copies of all documents contained in this sworn application for all major-party (Democratic and Republican) presidential candidates on the 2000 and 2004 General Election ballot. Because this request is for public, non-commercial use, I request that any fee be waived. If a fee is required, please contact me at this email address ([email protected]) with the amount, at which time I will decide to pursue or cancel my request. If my request is denied in whole or part, I ask that you justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the act. I would also remind you that the act stipulates that you respond to this request in a timely fashion. I request that the document be mailed either electronically (a scan of the document is sufficient) or through the postal service, no later than noon, September 18, 2009. If this is not possible, please contact me at this email address ([email protected]) with a time and a date by which I can expect to receive the document. Thank you again for your kind assistance, and I will look forward to receiving the documents soon. Sincerely, Your Fellow Citizen, Justin W. Riggs

I MADE THE RECORD REQUEST TO THE FOLLOWING HAWAII STATE OR COUNTY GOVERNMENT AGENCY: STATE OF HAWAII, OFFICE OF ELECTIONS

MY REQUEST WAS:

To inspect the government record. For a copy of the government record. (Please specify the format you requested, if any, such as electronic form, audio, video tape, etc.) Electronically, or through postal service

TEN BUSINESS DAYS HAVE PASSED, AND MY REQUEST WAS: Not answered. Denied. Please attach a copy of the agency’s written denial. If the denial was verbal, please provide the name and contact information of the agency employee who denied access.

I REQUEST FROM THE OIP: An opinion on whether this denial was legal, or Assistance in obtaining access to the requested record(s). NOTE:

Issues regarding copying fees under section 92-21, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are outside the OIP’s jurisdiction and will not be addressed. Denials or granting of fee waivers in the public interest under section 2-71-32, Hawaii Administrative Rules, are at the discretion of the agency receiving a record request and will not be addressed. .

OIP 2 (rev. 02/04)