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New Jersey Pulls Back New Rules Sealing Infrastructure Information

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· Story link The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, responding to public testimony and written comment, said it will redraw…

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The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, responding to public testimony and written comment, said it will redraw proposed new rules that would have closed records on critical infrastructure in the name of homeland security. Critics told a Domestic Security Task Force studying the new rules that they were too general and gave records custodians too much discretion to withhold information. (9/1/05)

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