right to known.
/ˌrʌɪt tə ˈnəʊ/, U.S. /ˈraɪt tə ˈnoʊ/ Originally U.S.
The principle or a policy of disclosing (sensitive) information held by a government, company, etc., on the grounds that knowledge of such information is in the public interest. Frequently attributive or without article.In the United States the right of an individual to know about hazardous chemicals he or she may be exposed to is enshrined in federal law in the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (1986).
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1954 Washington Post 16 May 2 m/5 (heading) Wiggins to speak on ‘Right to Know’.
1957 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 10 Apr. 15/3 (heading) Right to know issue sent to law committee.
1975 Yale Law Jrnl. 84 747 The right-to-know laws, including the Freedom of Information Act, are ‘weak and easily evaded’.
1985 Jrnl. Public Health Policy 6 281 Standards previously promulgated on ‘right-to-know’ about hazardous substances in the workplace and environment were attacked.
1992 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Nov. (Features section) 22 It is timely that..[he] should be introducing his private members bill on the right to know in the Commons today.
2004 C. Paul & J. J. Kim Reporters on Battlefield 122 While the threshold is hard to precisely elucidate, gross violations of right to know are not.
2008 Northern Echo (Nexis) 17 July 8 All but seven Conservative MPs released a detailed breakdown of their allowances for the April-June period, under David Cameron's Right To Know policy.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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