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86 Minn. L. Rev. 1137 (2001-2002)
Access and Aggregation: Public Records, Privacy and the Constitution

handle is hein.journals/mnlr86 and id is 1147 raw text is: Access and Aggregation: Public Records,
Privacy and the Constitution
Daniel J. Solovet
CONTENTS
Introduction  ..................................  1138
I. The Problem of Public Records ................. 1142
A. An Overview of Public Record-Keeping ......  1142
1. Federal, State, and Local Public Records...  1142
2. The Government-Madison Avenue
Connection  ...........................   1149
3. The Impact of Technology ...............  1152
B. The Regulation of Public Records ..........  1154
1. The Common Law, Court Records, and
Protective Orders ......................  1154
2. Freedom of Information Laws ............  1160
3. Privacy Acts ...........................  1164
4. Access and Use Restrictions ..............  1169
5. Restrictions on State Information Practices  1171
6. Conclusion: The Regulatory Regime of
Public Records .......................    1172
II. Access and Aggregation: Rethinking Privacy and
Public Records .............................  1173
A. The Tension Between Transparency and
Privacy  .................................   1173
B. Conceptualizing Privacy for Public Records...  1176
1. Access: The Public is Private .............  1176
t Assistant Professor, Seton Hall Law School; J.D. Yale, 1997. I would
like to thank Mark Alexander, Carl Coleman, Howard Erichson, Timothy
Glynn, Rachel Godsil, Ted Janger, Raymond Ku, Erik Lillquist, Michael Ris-
inger, Marc Rotenberg, Richard Solove, Richard St. John, Charles Sullivan,
and Michael Sullivan. I would also like to thank Peter Choy and Eli Weiss for
their research assistance, and the Seton Hall Law School faculty scholarship
fund for its financial support for this project. Copyright 2002 by Daniel J.
Solove and the Minnesota Law Review.

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