[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR701.34]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 701_AVAILABILITY OF DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY RECORDS AND PUBLICATION 
OF DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY DOCUMENTS AFFECTING THE PUBLIC--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart B_FOIA Definitions and Terms
 
Sec. 701.34  Public interest.

    The interest in obtaining official information that sheds light on a 
DON activity's performance of its statutory duties because the 
information falls within the statutory purpose of the FOIA to inform 
citizens what their government is doing. That statutory purpose, 
however, is not fostered by disclosure of information about private

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citizens accumulated in various governmental files that reveals nothing 
about an agency's or official's own conduct.