That’s all nonsense about how fragile the original BCs from 1961 would be. I’ve recently spent time reading old, bound newspapers from around 1917 to 1920 and they were in decent shape, and could be handled without damaging. And the BCs would have been printed on thicker and better paper, and would be only 8 1/2 x 11, unlike the much larger newspaper size paper.
50 years is not that old for paper documents.
I have a set of the complete works of Charles Dickens, printed in the year of his death (1864).
I agree, 50 years is young for documents.
Paper docs shouldn’t even come into the discussion ! The Nordyke twins original birthcerts were printed of microfiche
which has a longer life expectancy than paper docs. If you’ve seen the proud Nordyke mother holding up these BCs, they were actually negative images. I assume someone had them reverse printed onto paper. Not sure, but I ‘think’ she acquired these in 1988 ?
I’ve got sheet music from the 1880’s and books over 300 years old.
In great shape.
And the HDOH has all this stuff on multiple microfilms as well, including master security microfilms. The law has provisions for new BC’s to be made if the originals become unuseable, but the microfilms are there to insure that the image of the originals will always be available.
It is the microfilms that Arpaio wants to see - and that ANYBODY needs to see in order to have any idea what is genuine at this point (along with the computer transaction logs).
The Administrative Rules actually expressly allow people who are named on BC’s to be able to see the record for themselves. And they are allowed to get copies - not just abstracts - of the ENTIRE BC, including the confidential portion.
Almost everything that comes out of the Hawaii government these days is lies.