Who Needs to Know?

Who Needs to Know? The State of Public Access to Federal Government Information will help readers begin to assess the impact of the various trends and forces on the ability of the public to find, obtain, and use federal government information. 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 While this book will look at those concerns and attempt to present some of the recent history of withdrawn access, it will also draw a wider picture and look at the controls that have been imposed on public access in a variety of arenas.