P. of C. 2944

Memorials
IEPR
17 December 2025

Date: May 25, 2016

To establish public policy for access to government information and documentation; to order, organize and regulate real access mechanisms; to establish principles and instruments to guarantee access; to establish the governmental obligation to inform and to educate on the principle and practice of governmental transparency, access to information and documentation and to the mechanisms of how to obtain it; organize and regulate mechanisms for creating records; order the appointment of an Information Officer in each governmental entity; create the position of Public Information Ombudsman; create an Administrative Board to review disputes over violations of this law; schedule a final Judicial Appeal procedure to the decisions of this Board and for other purposes.

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