I forget if it was one of your requests or from one of the stories where Spokesbabe Okubo was interviewed (or both), but she said something about the requests were getting creative to try to get to the information about Obama's birth records and that's how they were treating most of the requests. We also know they were tracking who and where requests are coming from so they can 'identify' VRs.
That was in the AP article quoting Okubo. She was talking about a request I had my daughter send in, requesting birth index PAGES - saying she needed them for a school project on Chinese- and Japanese-Americans during the Civil Rights Era and needed to get names from that time.
The response was that she had to send a snail-mail request saying what name she wanted index data for.... blah, blah, blah, just showing that the request hadn’t even been read, since she wanted the page so she could GET NAMES, not because she already knew what names she wanted.
It was only after talking with Linden Joesting that I found that they still have to give copies of birth index pages, but the OIP won’t take up the issue on appeal unless the requestor has jumped through all the hoops Fukino tells us to.
The HDOH’s instruction page for requesting index DATA doesn’t say you can ask for a page from an index book but the OIP interprets a page from the index book to be “index data” so the requester has to go through the whole snail-mail song and dance, spending money to prove that the request was received because the HDOH won’t answer it unless you have proof that they got it.... etc.
So Okubo’s line about “creative requests” was actually about creative ways to try to get them to actually obey UIPA. Which nobody should have to do at all. A fact for which she apparently has no shame.
That article by Okubo could just as well have had my name written on it, because everything she said in there was a way to tell me to shut up and die.
I don’t take orders from her, though, and she will learn that soon if she hasn’t already.