Relevant Language:
SUBCHAPTER 8 – DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION. § 12-5-215 AUTHORIZED DISCLOSURES ... Disclosure of any information obtained at any time from workers, employers, or other persons or groups in the course of administering the state employment security program under chapter 383, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is authorized in the following cases for the following purposes: (1) To individual applicants and employers to the extent necessary for the efficient performance of recruitment, placement, employment counseling, and other employment service functions ... (3) To any officer or employee of any agency of the federal government or of a state or territorial government lawfully charged with the administration of a federal, state, or territorial unemployment insurance or readjustment allowance law, but only for purposes reasonably necessary for the proper administration of such law ... (5) To applicants, employers, and the public, general information concerning employment opportunities, employment levels and trends, and labor supply and demand, provided such release or publication does not include information identifiable to individual applicants, employers, or employing establishments. § 12-5-219 DISCLOSURE TO GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES. Disclosure of information pertaining to claimants and employers in connection with unemployment insurance to a federal, state, territorial, or municipal agency shall be considered to be in the public interest only if such disclosure is in connection with its public duties, and the information so disclosed will be used for the performance of such public duties, and only if that agency agrees not to release or publish in any manner information identifiable to individual applicants, employees, or employing establishments, provided that the agency shall not be bound by this restriction if it is necessary for the disclosed information to be used in any criminal proceeding. § 12-5-220 DISCLOSURE OF QUARTERLY WAGE DETAIL INFORMATION. (a) The department shall disclose quarterly wage detail information to authorized requesting agencies which have entered into an agreement in accordance with subsection (b) for purposes deemed by the department to be useful in verifying eligibility for and the amount of benefits or to be reasonably necessary for the proper administration of the requesting agency's program...
