Term:Declassification

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DoD 5200.1-R

Declassification - The authorized change in the status of information from classified information to unclassified information. AP2.1.25.

DoD 5220.22-M

Declassification - The determination that classified information no longer requires, in the interest of national security, any degree of protection against unauthorized disclosure, together with removal or cancellation of the classification designation.

DSS Glossary

Declassification - Authorized change in the status of information from classified information to unclassified information. Also an administrative step that the owner of the media takes when the classification is lowered to UNCLASSIFIED. The media must be properly sanitized before it can be downgraded to UNCLASSIFIED.