28 CFR § 17.45 - Need-to-know.

---
identifier: "/us/cfr/t28/s17.45"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "28 CFR § 17.45 - Need-to-know."
title_number: 28
title_name: "Judicial Administration"
section_number: "17.45"
section_name: "Need-to-know."
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE"
part_number: "17"
part_name: "CLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION AND ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "28 U.S.C. 501, 509, 510, 515-519; 5 U.S.C. 301; E.O. 12958, 60 FR 19825, 3 CFR, 1995 Comp., p. 333; E.O. 12968, 60 FR 40245, 3 CFR, 1995 Comp., p. 391; 32 CFR part 2001."
regulatory_source: "Order No. 2091-97, 62 FR 36984, July 10, 1997, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "17"
---


# 17.45 Need-to-know.

No person shall be granted access to specific classified information unless that person has an actual need-to-know that classified information, pursuant to section 2.5 of Executive Order 12968.