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Except the law that forbids releasing birth certificates to third parties.

No, actually it doesn't. There are several possible third-parties who can receive a birth certificate. Review HRS 338-18. And again, there's no law that would be broken by Fukino making a full disclosure. She has statutory authority. I've cited the law. Denying it and twisting it doesn't change it.

The issue is whether or not the public interest is so much greater than the privacy interest that the former overrules the latter.

The HI DOH posted an Obama FAQ page at its Web site. How do you reckon that's not to be in response to legitimate public interest?? These documents should be going into the Obama presidential library for historians and scholars to view. Instead, Obama's records will be hidden and buried like Jimmy Hoffa or Osama Bin Laden.

News flash... random Birthers like butterdezillion sending invalid UIPA requests does not constitute a demonstration of a public interest worthy of breaking the law.

The requests are neither random or invalid. Such requests are absolutely within the rights and rationale of the disclosure laws as written. Quit carrying water for a fraud.

"No, actually it doesn't. There are several possible third-parties who can receive a birth certificate."

Sadly for you though, none of the "possible third-parties" that are enumerated in the law have asked for one. I note that nether butterdezillion nor you are on that list.

"And again, there's no law that would be broken by Fukino making a full disclosure. She has statutory authority. I've cited the law. Denying it and twisting it doesn't change it."

No law except this one:

§338-18 Disclosure of records. (b)"The department shall not permit inspection of public health statistics records, or issue a certified copy of any such record or part thereof, unless it is satisfied that the applicant has a direct and tangible interest in the record."

What part of "The department shall not..." do you have trouble understanding? Exactly?

"The HI DOH posted an Obama FAQ page at its Web site. How do you reckon that's not to be in response to legitimate public interest??"

LOL... I suspected it before when I suggested you go find out what "public interest" means, and now I know you are clueless. It doesn't mean morbid curiosity. Look up "legitimate" too while you're at it.

"These documents should be going into the Obama presidential library for historians and scholars to view."

And 15 or 20 years from now when there actually is an Obama Presidential Library, you and I can go together and look for them.