I’ve requested a non-certified copy of the marriage certificate for BHO and SAD. The administrative rules authorize it to be released to anybody who asks for it.
But the DOH isn’t into this following the rules stuff. They refused. I showed them where it was authorized and that UIPA requires documents authorized for release to be released. They e-mailed back saying they had already answered my request.
I guess that must have been when Takase decided I was mentally ill because I couldn’t understand that I had already been given my answer...
I feel your pain. All they have to do is stonewall the one time (despite violating laws and departmental rules), and then they’ve given themselves an excuse to ignore you on follow-ups and ignore your corrections of their procedural errors. This is scary and it’s even scarier that they would consider passing a law to virtually allow them to ignore the media and everybody who makes a legal information request.
Someone like Dan Nakaso should be equally alarmed. This is real abuse of the laws that were designed to protect the interests of the public and the media is the first line of defense at exposing this kind of corruption. He should be all over this, yet he acts like he’s their puppet.