I not only agree with you, but IMO, I believe the Hawaii DOH does as well.
I believe people have cited this very thing when requesting a copy of the COL online as well.
But because what’s online and what the Kapiolani letter say do/DID not agree with what the vital records they released would say, they cannot disclose the info on birth place.
I am curious what a request for that info would yield now that I believe congress signed off on his birth facts last summer.
As I understand it, Congress can’t have any legal bearing on Obama’s birth facts or the legal status of them. The Full Faith and Credit Clause of Article IV (Sec 1) says that each state’s acts, records, and judicial proceedings are to be honored. Hawaii birth certificates are governed by Hawaii law, and HRS 338-17 says that an amended and/or late BC has no legal value until it is presented as evidence to a judicial or administrative person or body and determined to be probative. Congress is legislative, not judicial or administrative. They can’t determine the probative value of an amended Hawaii BC. They simply have to abide by the process that Hawaii has set up for its records.