The federal government routinely “collects, maintains, uses, disseminates, saves, loses, and destroys vast quantities of information,”1 a large portion of which is or may become public assuming it has not been lost or destroyed. Public information includes information products that the government imparts on its own initiative or that is required to release (e.g., through the Freedom of Information Act; FOIA), whereas nonpublic information is meant solely for use within government and is not for public consumption. Because it is held in confidence, for example, for reasons of predecision, security, or personal privacy, or protective stipulations in administrative or statutory law, nonpublic information is not released under the FOIA or other “open government” laws. Public information comes from not only government bodies located in the nation’s capital, but also regional offices of federal departments and agencies located throughout the United States as well as branch offices located in other countries. [download]
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