[murgie]

There are many intermediate positions possible between making ACRs completely public (i.e. available to absolutely ANYone) and completely secret (even the candidate is uninformed). Natural justice requires that at least the
candidate be informed and given an opportunity to respond.

Whether it should also be made available to a wider audience is debatable. A candidate could be given the choice of making his own ACR public. Some public good could also result if some systematic data can be gathered from ACRs while yet preserving privacy. For e.g. when doctors in the US bill their patients they have to fill out a form which includes say, the illness he came in for, and that portion (not the identity of the patient) is passed onto some central information system that feeds the Center for Disease Control, so it serves a need to maintain public health. In a similar way redacted ACRs may help create data for a useful database to study research questions dealing with administration. Best,

Murgie