The privacy laws of Hawaii no longer apply to Obama’s BC because he released a copy to the press.
After a long stonewall, Obama finally released a BC because of the growing movement of key states to pass laws to examine BCs as part of eligibility verifications. In other words, Obama blinked. Now the birther detectives are calling him on the card he played.
A federal court has already ordered that the original long form BC said to be held by the State of Hawaii is to be released but the Hawaii Department of Records is Stonewalling the order. They have until November 21 to produce it.
Since the BC has been ordered to be released, there is nothing stopping Arizona from requesting to examine it for ballot listing purposes.
IMO, Obama has NOT legally released the State of HI to release his BC to anybody. Obama claims to have personally released a pdf image of his BC to the press, but that does not constitute a legal release for HI to release his BC.
Obama has also put distance between himself and the pdf image. At the WH briefing before Obama disclosed the pdf image, Bob Bauer was asked if Obama would be holding the “actual” certified copy supposedly obtained from HI when he spoke to the press and Bauer pointedly said Obama would not be holding the certified copy. That afternoon, Bauer, whose law form had orchestrated obtaining the alleged certified BC image, resigned as Obama’s WH attorney (a civil servant on the federal payroll) and became Obama’s personal attorney with attorney client privilege.