You might want to actually take a look at: “subject to the requirements” of HRS 338-18.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrs2006/Vol06_Ch0321-0344/HRS0338/HRS_0338-0018.HTM
You may know that the "any applicant" is Danae and others like her are "the applicant has a direct and tangible interest in the record" as they have met the " subject to the requirements of HRS 338-18" " for copies to their long form Hawaiian birth certificates, and to otherwise deny them, is a violation of Hawaiian law stipulated in HRS §338-13.