{
  "id": "br-lai",
  "name": "Lei de Acesso à Informação",
  "short_name": "LAI",
  "citation": "Lei nº 12.527/2011",
  "jurisdiction": "foreign",
  "state": null,
  "state_name": null,
  "country": "Brazil",
  "country_code": "BR",
  "url": "https://aletheca.com/laws/br-lai",
  "description": "Brazil's access law, filed through the federal Fala.BR platform. Classification is time-boxed by grade — ultrassecreto 25 years, secreto 15, reservado 5 — which is why the classic Air Force UFO files are already open.",
  "statutory_days": 20,
  "business_days": false,
  "statutory_text": "Immediate access where possible; otherwise 20 days, extendable by 10 with express justification.",
  "appeal_deadline_days": 10,
  "appeal_basis": "days from the decision, up the administrative hierarchy",
  "appeal_process": "Recurso to the authority's superior within 10 days, then the CGU, then the CMRI as the final administrative instance.",
  "litigation": "The courts, after the administrative chain; the CGU stage resolves most disputes.",
  "fee_waiver_standard": "Free apart from reproduction costs.",
  "expedited_criteria": [],
  "exemptions": [
    "Art. 23 Segurança nacional (time-boxed by grade)",
    "Art. 31 Informação pessoal"
  ],
  "portal": "https://falabr.cgu.gov.br",
  "turnaround_notes": "The Air Force's historic UFO files — Operação Prato included — were transferred to the Arquivo Nacional from 2010 onward and most are already open.",
  "quirks": null,
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Gov.br — Acesso à Informação (federal LAI portal)",
      "url": "https://www.gov.br/acessoainformacao/pt-br",
      "status": "verified",
      "checked_at": "2026-08-31"
    }
  ],
  "text": null,
  "text_note": null,
  "agencies": [
    {
      "slug": "br-fab",
      "name": "Brazilian Air Force / National Archives",
      "local_name": "Força Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacional",
      "abbr": "FAB",
      "jurisdiction": "foreign",
      "state": null,
      "state_name": null,
      "country": "Brazil",
      "country_code": "BR",
      "category": "defense",
      "agency_type": "armed_forces",
      "parent": null,
      "parent_name": null,
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/br-fab",
      "website": "https://www.fab.mil.br",
      "reading_room": null,
      "subject_to_foia": true,
      "law": {
        "id": "br-lai",
        "citation": "Lei nº 12.527/2011",
        "statutory_days": 20,
        "business_days": false,
        "appeal_deadline_days": 10
      },
      "intake": [
        {
          "channel": "portal",
          "detail": "https://falabr.cgu.gov.br",
          "label": "Fala.BR — federal LAI platform",
          "verified": true,
          "verification": "verified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        },
        {
          "channel": "portal",
          "detail": "https://www.gov.br/acessoainformacao/pt-br",
          "label": "Acesso à Informação portal",
          "verified": true,
          "verification": "verified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        }
      ],
      "submission_readiness": null,
      "holdings": [
        "Operação Prato (1977, Colares) field reports, photographs and the officers' notebooks — at the Arquivo Nacional",
        "SIOANI (1969–72) files, the Air Force's own UFO study system",
        "The 'Official Night of the UFOs' (19 May 1986) radar and interceptor records"
      ],
      "tips": [
        "Most of the classic files are transferred and open — search the Arquivo Nacional's SIAN catalogue for 'óvni' and 'objetos voadores não identificados' before filing.",
        "File LAI requests through Fala.BR against the Comando da Aeronáutica; the CGU appeal is free and often productive."
      ],
      "tracking": "Fala.BR protocol number (NUP) issued at submission.",
      "confidence": "high",
      "source": "Hand-compiled international layer. Bodies and statutes are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified, and none has yet been proven by a delivered letter."
    }
  ]
}