The president of the board of directors of the Senate of Mexico, Alejandro Armenta Mier, presented an initiative with a draft decree to repeal the General Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information and for the possible disappearance of the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Data Protection (Inai) and that its functions be transferred to the Ministry of Public Administration.
The senator from Morena explained that the INAI and the SFP share objectives and activities, so there is a possibility that the Institute will be absorbed by the Secretariat so that there is only one entity responsible for the transparency of public information, as well as the personal data protection in Mexico.
He assured that the INAI is an autonomous body whose objective is to guarantee people’s access to public information “as well as the access and protection of their personal data, thus promoting transparency in both public management and in the accountability that the government must give to society”.
While the Public Function has a mission aimed at “ethics, honesty, efficiency, professionalization and transparency of the public function in accordance with the legality and regulations established in the National Development Plan considered for the period 2019-2024, which has as objective is the fight against corruption, as well as the application of the transparency and austerity in order to carry out a national regeneration with the resources that are required to achieve the development of the country”. What according to the legislator has some points in common with what the Inai does.
The initiative seeks to change the current text of article 3 of the General Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Obligated Subjects and the text of article 37 of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration; the first, to make it known that the effects of the Law will be dealt with by the Ministry of Public Administration; while the second, to specify that the same Secretariat corresponds to the “office to attend” to requests for public information.
