[Political Junkie Too]

I'm sure you were around when we discussed Arizona sending agents to inspect the document themselves under the full faith and credited clause of Article IV. They were denied direct access to the documents and were instead given a document attesting that the contents on the public document match information in their files. Not that the documents were the same, just that the contents matched.

So we have people who are self-interested in keeping the document secret declaring that nobody else needs to see it.

-PJ

[Nero Germanicus]

Under Hawaii law (Hawaii Revised Statutes 338-18(b)[point 9] if anybody wants to inspect a birth record and they are not on the list of persons designated by law to have “a direct and tangible interest” in the birth record, what you need is “an order from a judge of a court of competent jurisdiction.”
In non-legalese, go to a real court, convince a judge that they should issue a court order for release of the birth certificate and you’ll get to see the original.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/vol06_ch0321-0344/HRS0338/HRS_0338-0018.htm