Non-confidential information generally pertaining to the conduct of government
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Public records are documents or pieces of information that are not considered confidential and generally pertain to the conduct of government.
Depending on jurisdiction, examples of public records includes information pertaining to births, deaths, marriages, and documented transaction with government agencies.
Attitudes and expectations about what information should be made public have been studied.[1]
^Martin, Kirsten E.; Nissenbaum, Helen (2016). "Privacy of Public Data". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2875720. ISSN 1556-5068. S2CID 152240152.
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the public domain. There are activities in countries around the world by various organizations all under the banner Public Domain Day. Publicrecords Center...
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the access to educational information and records by public entities such as potential employers, publicly funded educational institutions, and foreign...
for publicrecords from the Master of the Rolls to the Lord Chancellor. The Act stipulated that records would be transferred to the PublicRecord Office...
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of information in the United States relates to the public's ability to access government records, meetings, and other information. In the United States...
documents are generally treated as publicrecords subject to public disclosure under the California PublicRecords Act. Effective January 1, 2017, written...
majority of Abagnale's story was invented or at best exaggerated. The publicrecords obtained by Logan have since been independently verified by journalist...
public records of the First World War available, but the records from the Second World War did not become available until 1972. PublicRecord Office Short...
events depicted in The Navidson Record, set in April 1990, including unfilmed events sourced from media and publicrecords. The family are Will Navidson;...
films) and digital records that exist for each individual patient and for the body of information found therein. Medical records have traditionally been...
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Record sealing is the process of making publicrecords inaccessible to the public. In many cases, a person with a sealed record gains the legal right...
public access to official records in Scandinavia is the principle that everyone should have the right to take part in non-classified publicrecords and...
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