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The disciplinary files of Los Angeles police officers are closely guarded secrets, protected by some of the nation’s strictest confidentiality laws.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

She had to spend a lot of time at her home, in Beijing, which had some of the strictest lockdowns in China, if not the world.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026

The European Union has some of the strictest data-privacy laws in the world, so the therapy might encounter fewer regulatory hurdles in other parts of the world.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

At the center of the debate is the act’s “blanket rule,” which automatically applies the strictest “endangered”-level protections to all threatened species unless the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

“The matter would . . . have to be handled under the strictest sort of secrecy,” he confided to Frank Jewett.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik