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This Concurrent Resolution requests the Office of Information Practices (OIP), a government agency responsible for overseeing information access laws in Hawaii, to establish a working group. This group will be tasked with developing recommendations for how to handle "deliberative and pre-decisional agency records," which are internal documents and discussions that occur before a final decision is made by a government agency. The resolution acknowledges that while agencies need to have frank internal discussions to make sound decisions, the public also has an interest in transparency. The working group will consist of three representatives from public interest groups, three from government agencies, and the OIP Director, who will lead the group. Their goal is to find a reasonable balance between the public's right to know and the agency's need for candid internal deliberations, and they are expected to report their findings and recommendations to the Legislature by early 2023.