A duty to document

Abstract

Information access depends upon documentation. Accessing information, particularly within the context of contemporary institutions, necessarily means accessing documentation of some kind or another. It is especially important for access to information regimes that are legally mandated institutional frameworks meant to record, retain, and make available and accessible the information produced and used by public sector institutions. Indeed, these regimes require documentation in order to help ensure that public sector information actually exists in some kind of authentic, credible, and legitimate recorded form. [excerpt]