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Updated at 3:45 p.m., Tuesday, October 16, 2007

New director named for Office of Information Practices

Advertiser Staff

Paul T. Tsukiyama, who has worked as an attorney for city and state government, has been named director of the Office of Information Practices.

The OIP oversees the state's open-record laws. The appointment is effective Nov. 9, according to a news release from Gov. Linda Lingle's office.

Tsukiyama currently heads the labor and personnel section of the Honolulu Department of the Corporation Counsel, the release said.

Prior to joining the Corporation Counsel in 1997, he was the director of the Special Prosecution Division of the City's Department of the Prosecuting Attorney.

He also served as supervisor of the Prosecuting Attorney's White-Collar Crime Branch and was a deputy prosecuting attorney.

Tsukiyama previously worked for the state as a deputy attorney general in the Commerce and Economic Development Division of the Department of the Attorney General, as well as a special enforcement attorney with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the release said.

He is a former chairman of the Criminal Justice and Corrections Section of the Hawai'i State Bar Association and served on the Hawai'i State Judiciary's Committee on Hawai'i Rules and of Penal Procedures and Circuit Court Criminal Rules. He is also served as an arbitrator for the First Circuit.

A graduate of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Tsukiyama earned a law degree from Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Ore.