CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE

confidential source.A person who provides information to a law-enforcement agency or to a journalist on the express or implied guarantee of anonymity. • Confidentiality is protected both under the Federal Freedom of Information Act (for disclosures to law enforcement) and under the First Amendment (for disclosures to jour-nalists). [Cases: Witnesses  196.1, 216(4).C.J.S. Witnesses §§ 358, 365.] [Blacks Law 8th]