They’re supposed to reply within 10 business days, but they can respond by asking a stupid question, trying to say they don’t understand what you’re asking for.
The people you’d need to talk to would actually probably be the IT people; if you go through the HDOH that’ll just add another 10 business days for them to waste, sending it on to IT. I think it was 6 months or something before I finally got a response where they said that revealing the record I asked for would frustrate a legitimate government function (they can’t maintain records if somebody knows when the record for Barack Hussein Obama II was accessed).
If the Hawaii government ever gets done doing their “power maintenance”, you should be able to find contact information for the IT people at http://hawaii.gov/lrb/capitoli/dirguide/ .
Good luck, and I hope this helps. If there’s anything I can do to help just give me a yell and if I can do it, I will.
Thanks for that link! So by clicking around a bit this is what I got:
http://hawaii.gov/auditor/Overviews/2009/09-06overview.pdf
This document created by the State Auditor Marion M. Higa in March 2009 (2 yrs ago) pretty much states that the IT function in Hawaii is a stepchild, receives minimal attention and probably insufficient funding.
I think I’ll send an email to Ms. Higa to find out if anything happened to improve the situation after she sent this document to the Governor (I assume).
Anyway, thanks Butter. This is a start. It will be interesting to see what Higa says.