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HRS §92F-21

Your right to see your own personal record

This section says that if a government agency keeps a personal record about you, you have the right to see it. The agency must give it to you quickly and in a way you can understand, including translating any codes or abbreviations.

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The statute, as written — Individual's access to own personal record

Each agency that maintains any accessible personal record shall make that record available to the individual to whom it pertains, in a reasonably prompt manner and in a reasonably intelligible form. Where necessary the agency shall provide a translation into common terms of any machine readable code or any code or abbreviation employed for internal agency use.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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