A city clerk's public-records unit is asked to pull everything on a paving vendor, including a non-public utility billing screen the clerk can open in the city's internal CIS. Which approach correctly treats the work as OSINT?
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Short Explanation
Think of OSINT like shopping from the storefront, not walking into the stockroom with a staff key. The clerk's CIS billing screen is an internal privilege, not something any member of the public can pull. Open-source work stops at what is publicly obtainable.
Full Explanation
OSINT is collection from publicly available sources. Role-based access to a municipal CIS utility-billing screen is privileged internal access, even when the same employee also performs public-records research. Mixing those streams mislabels closed records as open source and can create legal, privacy, and reporting problems. For a paving-vendor review, the OSINT lane is public filings, news, maps, and other openly obtainable artifacts; internal billing data belongs to a separate, authorized records process if it is needed at all.