Public records requests can reveal information that would never appear in official news releases. But there is no guarantee agencies will hand the information over.

The Honolulu police chief says the department will no longer share data with other agencies, but five months of data remain in the hands of the IRS.

The public has a right to review the Board of Regents’ discussions when it hired a new president and her special adviser, public interest attorneys say.

The disappearance from government websites of decades of data on health, education and criminal justice are among the many datasets that the Trump administration has dumped.

The state pest reporting platform 643Pest received a few hundred reports annually until 2023, when the floodgates opened for coconut rhinoceros beetles. 

Some neighbor island jobs have the edge in salaries compared to their Oʻahu counterparts, adding to hiring difficulties.  

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The latest update to Civil Beat’s Public Salary Database reflects major public-sector wage increases across Hawaiʻi — but not for everyone.

When Civil Beat sought exhibits in the trial of an abusive Hawaiʻi foster dad, the Attorney General’s Office intervened to prevent “family trauma” from becoming public. It already had.

The employee was paid not to work for years as officials mulled over his “impossible” mileage reports. He stopped receiving a city paycheck a few weeks after a Civil Beat story.