Who needs to know? : the state of public access to Federal government information / Patrice McDermott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDermott, Patrice.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government information--United States.

Government information.

Disclosure of information--Government policy.

Disclosure of information.

United States.

Freedom of information--United States.

Freedom of information.

Disclosure of information--Government policy--United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Bernan Press, [2007]

Summary:

In recent years, there has been a lot of debate about the suppression of federal government information on the basis of national or homeland security. While this book will look at those concerns and attempt to present some of the recent history of withdrawn access, it also draws a wider picture and looks at the controls that have been imposed on public access in a variety of arenas.

Contents:

There ought to be a law: the need for findable and usable information

Tracking the wild government: the Federal Records Act and government publications

Government-wide information policy

The regulatory system for accountability: the Freedom of Information Act

The Critical Infrastructure Information Act: the story of a FOIA exemption

Access restricted: the black hole of "sensitive but unclassified" information

Classified information: reclassified, overclassified, and misused

The executive's power over information access

Manipulating information: the dangerous capacities of the executive branch

Political science

A republic: how to keep it.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781598880502

1598880500

OCLC:

180931559