When Obama For America posted his COLB image online at FactCheck.org, they publicly disclosed confidential/private information from his Hawaii vital records. Then when officials of Hawaii released statements about Obama’s birth, they too publicly disclosed confidential information. The disclosure of such information negated, by law, the legal ability of the Hawaii DoH to refuse to release official copies of Obama’s COLB.
According to Hawaii’s laws, once you make it public or make a public statement about it, the data is no longer private and the public is therefore entitled to see it. Hawaii is ignoring the law.
Technically Hawaii didn’t release any confidential information and they certainly didn’t release it when the factlack dot org photos were published. Those came out in August 2008. Chiyome Fukino’s first statement about having an original birth certificate on file didn’t come out until October. Her next statement, which came the closest to ‘releasing’ confidential information wasn’t until July 2009, but that information would easily fall under the information that is legally permissible for release by the director.
When Obama For America posted his COLB image online at FactCheck.org, they publicly disclosed confidential/private information from his Hawaii vital records. Then when officials of Hawaii released statements about Obama’s birth, they too publicly disclosed confidential information. The disclosure of such information negated, by law, the legal ability of the Hawaii DoH to refuse to release official copies of Obama’s COLB.
According to Hawaii’s laws, once you make it public or make a public statement about it, the data is no longer private and the public is therefore entitled to see it. Hawaii is ignoring the law.