The Hawaii DOH Administrative Rules agree with you. If only Chiyome Fukino hadn’t hid them until a year after the election, any secretary of state might have known they could ask for and receive a certified copy of his original birth certificate and saved a lot of trouble.
Fukino illegally hid those rules until it was too late for the SOS’s to ask for a certified copy.
I think it’s time that law enforcement investigated why she did that.
There is another thread about this subject, from earlier, if anybody’s interested. Do a search of “Espero” in the thread titles and it’ll take you to it.
Your comment to this???
The majority of the people who e-mail or send letters to Okubo asking for Obama’s birth certificate do not challenge her response once she tells them they have no legal right to the information, she said.
But about a dozen people continue to hammer Okubo with follow-up requests.
“They want all of the organizational charts for our Office of Health Status Monitoring that handles vital records and for our health informations systems, our IT office,” Okubo said. “They request from me every single communication or every single document or request every record available related to President Obama’s vital records.”
Okubo readily acknowledges that she hasn’t always been able to reply to a request within 10 working days as required under Hawai’i’s Uniform Information Practices Act, the state’s version of the federal Freedom of Information Act.
But she adamantly disagrees with the “birthers’ “ interpretation of Hawai’i law.
“They usually say that by not giving out his birth certificate we’re breaking the law,” Okubo said.
“But we would be breaking the law by giving out a birth certificate to someone who does not have a right to it.”
When Okubo told one writer they did not have a right to Obama’s birth certificate because they were not related to the president, the person wrote back saying they, indeed, had a common ancestor.
“They said they have a tangible right to his birth certificate because they’re descended from Adam,” Okubo said, referring to the biblical figure. “We told them they need to provide some type of legal documentation.”
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