Privacy limits that reshape a public pack
How disclosure rules change chart design in public sector reporting without hiding the trend story.
Public packs and closed-session addenda serve different rooms. When site-level headcounts cannot be disclosed, ranges, district aggregates, and suppressed small cells keep the open document lawful while still showing direction over time.
We document every suppression rule in the methods annex. Members who need finer detail receive a separate addendum under the office’s own handling rules — never as a “hidden sheet” inside the public PDF.
If your legal team has not reviewed the open pack’s smallest cell sizes, pause the design work until they have.