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Noun Concept
Categories: Freedom of information in the United States, Privacy, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2011, Public records, All articles containing potentially dated statements
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public records  public record  record  administrative documents  Local records
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Any information, minutes, files, accounts or other records which a governmental body is required to maintain, and which must be accessible to scrutiny by the public. Open English WordNet
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Any information, minutes, files, accounts or other records which a governmental body is required to maintain, and which must be accessible to scrutiny by the public. Open English WordNet
Public records are documents or pieces of information that are not considered confidential and generally pertain to the conduct of government. Wikipedia
Information that has been filed or recorded by public agencies Wikipedia Disambiguation
Records originating with or maintained by a government and available for access by the public. Wikidata
Deposit of a document in an office or a public authority in order to have it registered (or acknowledged). OmegaWiki
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Although public records are records of public business, they are not necessarily available without restriction, although Freedom of Information legislation (FOI) that has been gradually introduced in many jurisdictions since the 1960s has made access easier. Open English WordNet