STATE OF HAWAI`I ORGANIZATION OF POLICE OFFICERS (SHOPO), Plaintiff-Appellee, and
Doe Police Officers 1 through 4, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants,
v.
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS-UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI`I CHAPTER, a non-profit organization, Defendants-Appellees, and
City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu Police Department, and Michael Nakamura, in his capacity as Chief of the Honolulu Police Department, Defendants-Appellants, and
Liberty [Newspapers Limited] Partnership dba The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, an Arkansas limited partnership; Gannett Pacific Corporation dba The Honolulu Advertiser, a Delaware corporation; Burnham Broadcasting Co. dba KHONTV2, a Delaware corporation; TAK Communications, Inc. dba KITV, a Maryland corporation; and Lee Enterprises, Inc. dba KGMB-TV9, an Iowa corporation, Defendants-Intervenors, and
State of Hawai`i, Office of Information Practices, Defendant-Intervenor (Civ. No. 94-0547); and
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS-UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI`I CHAPTER, a non-profit organization, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU, Honolulu Police Department, and Michael Nakamura, in his capacity as Chief of the Honolulu Police Department, Defendants-Appellants (Civ. No. 94-0657).
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November 15, 1996.
November 15, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Michael J. Green (David J. Gierlach with him on the briefs), Honolulu, for SHOPO.
Michael A. Lilly of Ning, Lilly & Jones, Honolulu, for Doe Officers 1 through 4.
Jeffrey S. Portnoy (Christopher I. L. Parsons with him on the briefs of Cades, Schutte, Fleming & Wright), Honolulu, for SPJ.
Debra A. Kagawa (former Deputy Corporation Counsel Daniel J. Kunkel on the briefs), Honolulu, for the City.
Moya T. Davenport Gray (Hugh R. Jones with her on the briefs), Honolulu, for OIP.
Before MOON, C.J., and KLEIN, LEVINSON, NAKAYAMA and RAMIL, JJ.
Supreme Court of Hawai`i.
MOON, Chief Justice.
These consolidated appeals1 all arise from the Society for Professional Journalists-University of Hawai`i Chapter (SPJ's) attempt, pursuant to Hawai`i Revised Statutes (HRS) Chapter 92F, to obtain records of disciplinary actions taken against employees of the Honolulu Police Department (HPD). The State of Hawai`i Organization of Police Officers (SHOPO) and plaintiffs-intervenors Doe Police Officers 1 through 4 (Doe...
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