Prepared by several members of the Office of Information and Privacy's attorney and paralegal staff. Explains each provision of the 1966 act designed to allow any person access to records of any agency of the US national government unless such information falls under one of the nine exemptions or three special exclusions. The bulk of the treatment is concerned with those exemptions and exclusions, and includes references to legal decisions affecting them from the time the law went effect until 1993. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Previous edition, 1st, published in 1988.