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.

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改变信息自由的路线：1911 年伤寒记录案

摘要：关于 1911 年纽约市伤寒爆发的信息的请求促使法院做出了第一批扭转 19 世纪开放获取政府信息的趋势的裁决之一。背景是美国地方政府政治理论的根本转变，以及两种不同的市政府改革方法的冲突：外部牛虻的方法与机构内部工作的方法。艾伦案为信息自由法设定了一种模式，即缩小法定权利以保护政府机构。