[edge919]

Nope. When Obama’s campaign website linked to an image of the COLB (fake or not) and then later allowed FactCheck to publish photographs of the COLB (fake or not,) Obama authorized the disclosure of his private information to the general public. At that point the information he released made that specific informaton on the COLB (not the details that might be on the long form) publicly available. In doing so, he legally released the HDoH from their responsibility to protect (and keep confidential) the data on his COLB.

There's no 'nope' there. I didn't disagree that Obama released an image of an alleged COLB. I pointed out an error in your timeline and your statement that Hawaii released confidential information. They didn't.

[butterdezillion]

Jill Nagamine at the AG’s office claims that they didn’t release confidential information when they said that Obama’s vital records claim a Hawaii birth because they say that Obama wouldn’t have birth index data if his BC didn’t claim a Hawaii birth.

Shortly after that I requested the index to foreign births, which existed in 1981 and was required to be kept permanently. The HDOH claims they don’t have it. (Surprise, surprise!)

So it’s hard to tell whether Nagamine’s argument is accurate or not.

I’m not sure that Fukino is authorized to release information that isn’t the standard index data that she’s given standing authorization to be released. HRS 338-18a forbids disclosures from the actual certificates that aren’t authorized by rules or law. The legal justification that Fukino could give for mentioning the Hawaii location would probably be Obama’s release of that information by supposedly posting his COLB.

That’s how it seems to me, but I’m happy to hear your explanation.