[FreeAtlanta]

Abercrombie is stepping out. He can’t find the certificate and resorted to the old privacy excuse.

[charo]

The Mike Evans radio spot where he claims that he spoke with Governor Abercrombie about the failure to find a birth certificate is being scrubbed.

[jamese777]

Abercrombie is stepping out. He can’t find the certificate and resorted to the old privacy excuse.

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Hawaii privacy statutes allow a birth record to be released to “a person whose right to inspect or obtain a certified copy of the record is established by an order of a court of compentent jurisdiction.”

That’s the same privacy excuse that the previous Republican administration in Hawaii used.

“For more than a year, the Department of Health has continued to receive approximately 50 e-mail inquiries a month seeking access to President Barack Obama’s birth certificate in spite of the fact that President Obama has posted a copy of the certificate on his former campaign website. Hawaii is a “closed records” state, meaning that vital records are available only to those with a direct and tangible interest as defined by statute; hence, they are not subject to disclosure under public records requests.”
—Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director, Hawaii Department of Health in sworn testimony before the Hawaii Senate Committee on the Judiciary and Government Operations, January 22, 2010.