overclassification

English

Etymology

over- +‎ classification

Noun

overclassification (uncountable)

1. Excessive classification.
   • 2009 March 23, “They Can’t Tell You”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     According to the bill’s sponsor, Representative Steve Driehaus, Democrat of Ohio, there were 362,000 F.O.I.A. requests last year, and almost a third of them still remain to be processed because of overclassification.