Also, what makes you think that the paper records were destroyed after digitizing? If you’ve followed this issue at all you know that the HI folks were all talking about the BC being in a bound volume with all the other BC’s. They did not destroy the paper records even if they digitized them.
And if you believe the excuses that Deputy AG Jill Nagamine gave for not allowing Duncan Sunahara to see a certified copy of his sister’s original BC, they must not have digitized anything because they couldn’t give a certified copy without causing gross damage to those fragile paper birth certificates in that bound volume. If they digitized those records then the condition of the paper records was no issue whatsoever. And actually we know that this was just an excuse on Nagamine’s part because they had not only the paper documents but master and work copies of the microfilmed BC images.
So they have paper copies, microfilm masters and multiple copies, and (from what they say on their website about still having to create records from old documents) digital files of all the BC’s. There is no reason for them to not allow Duncan to see his sister’s long-form, and they are making excuses. Typical of the lying scummery I’ve seen first-hand from the officials in Hawaii.
That wasn’t clear. They are working to have digitized copies of all the BC’s but don’t have the very old records digitized yet so when they get a request for a COLB from the early times it takes them extra time to process the request because they first have to digitize the record - which could be creating a digital image and/or entering the fields into a digital record so that an abstract (short-form) can be created.
This policy of not allowing photocopies makes a lot of extra work for them and delays for their customers. It’s also illegal as heck but that’s Hawaii government in a nutshell. Fast becoming the entire state and federal government in the United States too...