Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/32441
Title: Changing Course on Freedom of Information: The 1911 Typhoid Records Case
Contributor(s): Ress, David  (author)
Publication Date: 2017
DOI: 10.7560/IC52401
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/32441
Abstract: 

A request for information about New York City's typhoid outbreak of 1911 prompted one of the first court rulings to reverse the nineteenth-century trend of opening access to government information. In the background was a fundamental shift in the political theory of American local government and a clash of two different approaches to reform of municipal government: that of the outside gadfly versus the approach of working within the institution. The case In the Matter of Allen set a pattern for freedom of information law of narrowing a statutory right in order to protect institutions of government.

Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Information & Culture, 52(4), p. 385-411
Publisher: University of Texas Press, Journals Division
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 2166-3033
2164-8034
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 430321 North American history
430399 Historical studies not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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