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Report Recommends Regulatory Reforms to Balance Document Security and Public Access

The University of Maryland Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise announced the availablity of a report, The Unintended Audience: Balancing Openness and Secrecy – Crafting an Information Policy for the 21st Century (76 pages, PDF), that addresses post 9/11 limitations on public access to unclassified but “sensitive” government documents, and the associated impact of such restrictions on various professional communities throughout the country. The authors, Jacques S. Gansler and William Lucyshyn, recommend that the president issue an executive order creating a procedure to identify and designate specific government documents as Controlled Unclassified Security Information (CUSI). This system would clearly define what documents were to be made available within and between government agencies on the federal and local levels, as well as permitted access to various combinations of the scientific, academic and business communties, and to the public.

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