You don't need this "public" security level. It's making it more complicated because Jira has to distinguish between logged in and non-logged in users.
Use "anyone" in the permission scheme to allow non-logged-in users access to everything in the project. This is your "public" access.
Then, for any issues you want to hide, set a security level which restricts the access to the groups or roles you want to limit access to.
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