City agencies must share public data online and keep it updated

(a) Each agency shall, in consultation with the director and the city’s chief data officer established in § 2-19.7 , and in coordination with the city data plan created pursuant to § 2-19.5 , use reasonable efforts to make appropriate and existing electronic data sets maintained by the agency electronically available at no cost to the public through the city’s open data portal at data.honolulu.gov or its successor website designated by the director; provided that: (1) Data licensed to the city by another person or entity shall not be made public under this article, unless the person or entity licensing the data agrees to the public disclosure; and (2) Proprietary, privileged, and other information protected from disclosure by law, ethical standard, court order, or contract shall not be disclosed. Such disclosure shall be consistent with the procedures and standards developed by the chief data officer and consistent with applicable law, including HRS Chapter 92F and other State and federal laws and ethical standards related to security, privacy, and confidentiality, and no personally identifiable information shall be posted online unless the identified individual has consented to the posting or the posting is necessary to fulfill the lawful purposes or duties of the agency. (b) Each agency shall, in consultation with the director and the city’s chief data officer established in § 2-19.7 , and in coordination with the city data plan in § 2-19.5 , use reasonable efforts to make appropriate and existing electronic data sets maintained by the agency electronically available to the city’s enterprise operational platform. (c) Nothing in this chapter prevents the director or managing director from adopting rules pursuant to HRS Chapter 91 to implement this article, and nothing in this article supersedes HRS Chapter 27G. (d) Each agency shall update its electronic data sets in the manner prescribed by the chief data officer and as often as is necessary to preserve the integrity and usefulness of the data sets to the extent that the department or agency regularly maintains or updates the data sets.