The island ranks poorly in a worldwide assessment of info access. Former Governor Ricardo Rosselló signed the laws the day before resigning.
Two laws concerning the legal right to information access in Puerto Rico scored 73 out of a possible 150 points in an analysis published Wednesday by the Centre for Law and Democracy(CLD).
Former Governor Ricardo Roselló signed The Law on Transparency and Expedited Procedure for Access to Public Information (Transparency Law), and the Law on Open Data (Open Data Law), the day before his resignation in August 2019. Rosselló quit in the aftermath of a Telegram chat scandal involving public officials.
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