Traditionally, in the US, unless classified (primarily military/associated); any public official who documents anything while on (public) duty is creating a public paper. This applies to city government, county government, state government, and the federal government.
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Absentee papers.
Daniel Ellsberg
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788. A compilation of these and eight others, called The Federalist or The New Constitution, was published in two volumes in 1788 by J. and A. McLean. The series's correct title is The Federalist; the title The Federalist Papers did not emerge until the twentieth century.
Daniel Ellsberg
USS Missouri.