Various links on story overall.
It is a sad story.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?s=4845754
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Mar/29/ln/ln10p.html
At end of article:
“The Advertiser went to court to try to obtain the Family Court records. A Big Island Family Court judge agreed to release the records but the decision was reversed by the Supreme Court.”
Here is a good one:
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/03/16/news/story16.html
“The Big Island Press Club has honored state Department of Human Services Director Lillian Koller for her courage in releasing about 2,000 pages of documents on the “Peter Boy” Kema case.”
“While Koller was lauded for her actions, the County Council of Kauai and the Honolulu City Council — “whose actions are an affront to the transparency and openness” of what government agencies should have, the press club said — shared the dubious Lava Tube award for 2006, the club announced yesterday.
Earlier this year, a circuit judge declared the Honolulu City Council’s practice of closed-door communications illegal after a coalition of public-interest groups filed a lawsuit to stop it.”
And end of article....you will like this!....
“Lava Tube Dishonorable Mentions also went to:
» The Hawaii State Legislature for “maintaining its own exemption to the state’s Sunshine Law, which all other public agencies, boards and commissions in Hawaii must follow.””
Lets document that on its own again:
The Hawaii State Legislature for “MAINTAINING ITS OWN EXEMPTION to the state’s Sunshine Law, which all other public agencies, boards and commissions in Hawaii must follow.”