Abstract
“Freedom of information,” as a policy concept, has come to mean many things to many people. As used here, it refers to the statutorily guaranteed right of a citizen to obtain official records, with certain specified exceptions, so that he or she may know what the government is doing and why. Two of the most difficult and general exceptions to the rule of presumptive government information accessibility are “national security” and the “public interest.” The manner and extent to which these two referents, or their approximations, impinge upon freedom of information guarantees in some access statutes is explored, together with some consideration of differing mechanisms for assuring that freedom of information is fully realized.
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