Looking for a birth certificate in Hawaii while not stockpiling aluminum foil? Hawaii’s state legislature is considering telling you to buzz off:
As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama’s birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials to ignore people who won’t give up.
“Sometimes we may be dealing with a cohort of people who believe lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy,” said Lorrin Kim, chief of the Hawaii Department of Health’s Office of Planning, Policy and Program Development.
To discourage people from continuing to make requests:
If the measure passed, the state Office of Information Practices could declare an individual a “vexatious requester” and restrict rights to government records for two years.
If people don’t care about wasting their own time, they should at least be discouraged from wasting the taxpayer dollars of Hawaii residents.
