Confidential Source Law and Legal Definition
Confidential Source is a person who provides information to a law-enforcement agency or to a journalist on the express or implied guarantee of anonymity. Confidentiality is protected both under the Federal Freedom of Information Act (for disclosures to law enforcement) and under the First Amendment ( for disclosure to journalists).
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Related Legal Terms
- Acceptable Medical Source
- Accountable Sealed Radioactive Source
- Aging and Disability Resource Center
- Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution
- Agricultural Resource
- Agricultural Resource Management Plan
- Agricultural Resource Management Survey
- All-Source Intelligence
- Animal Resource Manager
- Antarctic Marine Living Resource Convention Act of 1984
