[bgill]

The HDOH denied that they have ANY index to foreign births at all - not even a computer file with names listed.

Yep, goes back to them being public records.

[butterdezillion]

It was interesting to see that Alvin Onaka, on the page stating the disposition of the index to foreign birth, certificates of foreign birth, and sealed adoption records, noted that the certificates and sealed adoption records were to be listed as vital records and access limited by the applicable laws (including 338-18 for the certificates of foreign birht).

He made no such statement for the index. Index records are public. They are “public health statistics records” (regarding the processing of information) but NOT “vital records”. HRS 338-18(a) does not apply to them.

This flies in the face of what Fukino has been claiming all along.