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Santa Fe

Decreto de Acceso a la Información Pública del Poder Ejecutivo de Santa Fe

Decreto Provincial N° 0692/2009

Open Records Transparency: 31/100 (weak) Transparency Score: 31/100

Response Timeline

Initial Response
15 days
Extension
10 days

15 business days from receipt. A reasoned extension of up to 10 additional business days is permitted, to be communicated before the initial deadline expires. The competent body must rule within 5 business days and notify the applicant. IMPORTANT SCOPE LIMITATION: Decree 692/2009 covers ONLY the centralized and decentralized administration of the provincial Executive branch. The Legislative branch, Judicial branch, and municipalities/communes were invited but not required to apply it. Bills to enact a comprehensive provincial access-to-information law covering all branches were submitted at least 7 times and failed each time. As of 2025, Santa Fe does not have a comprehensive access-to-information law.

Exemptions

  • Defense, intelligence, and national security
  • Personal data with no sufficient public interest
  • Third-party commercial secrets
  • Internal deliberative opinions and recommendations
  • Active investigations

Exemptions follow standard Argentine framework. Partial access applies where only part of a document is exempt. Because this is an executive decree rather than a law, the exemptions are less formally codified than in provincial laws.

Appeal Process

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Appeal within the executive branch administrative hierarchy per provincial administrative procedures.

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Judicial remedy before provincial courts

Oversight authority is the Dirección Provincial de Anticorrupción y Transparencia del Sector Público (Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos). Note that this decree is a weaker instrument than a law — it can be modified or revoked by executive action alone and does not bind the other branches.

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