“They discarded the paper when they finished the switching over.” You keep putting that spin on this. Prove it. Prove that the state of Hawaii destroyed the paper documents that they made electronic file copies of. ... You can’t prove it because that is not the level of specificity the article claims. What the official could just as easily have been stating was that the state no longer goes to the paper files to make a copy because they have all of them copied into electronic imagery. And that is the more plausible meaning since it is in context of the comments regarding making a quicker copy to send out/give out to those requesting a copy.
The news report states that the State of Hawaii discarded the paper. I can only take the news that we have at face value until someone else comes up with someone who has another news report that says something like, “No, the State of Hawaii has stated that they put them into storage.” That hasn’t been said, What has been said is that they were discarded.
Now, you can believe it or not, but I’m just repeating what they said because the report also indicates that the staff called the State of Hawaii to find that out.
However, I’m sure that someone could get on the phone and call up the Vital Records division and find out and report back to us... :-)
If true, OB can release it in 5 minutes.