How 1 Western State Classifies Info as Public, Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret.

The Montana Information Technology Managers Council this fall promulgaed policy to require Montana state agencies to classify information in 4 categories:

  • public
  • confidential
  • secret
  • top secret

Open government? The category names depcit a conflict between category names IT professionals regularly utilize & the categories that political types would prefer,

The policy is htting the Montana Legislature with a roar.

Montana Standard | State mulls policy on public, secret, top secret info