{
  "id": "cl-transparencia",
  "name": "Ley de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública",
  "short_name": "Ley 20.285",
  "citation": "Ley N° 20.285 (2008)",
  "jurisdiction": "foreign",
  "state": null,
  "state_name": null,
  "country": "Chile",
  "country_code": "CL",
  "url": "https://aletheca.com/laws/cl-transparencia",
  "description": "Chile's transparency law, enforced by an independent council. The DGAC — the civil-aviation authority that hosts the standing UAP office — answers under it.",
  "statutory_days": 20,
  "business_days": true,
  "statutory_text": "20 días hábiles from receipt, extendable once by 10 more where the records are hard to gather.",
  "appeal_deadline_days": 15,
  "appeal_basis": "días hábiles from refusal or silence to file an amparo",
  "appeal_process": "Amparo before the Consejo para la Transparencia within 15 business days, then the Corte de Apelaciones.",
  "litigation": "Corte de Apelaciones (reclamo de ilegalidad).",
  "fee_waiver_standard": "Free; only direct reproduction costs may be charged.",
  "expedited_criteria": [],
  "exemptions": [
    "Art. 21 N°3 Seguridad de la Nación",
    "Art. 21 N°2 Derechos de las personas",
    "Art. 21 N°5 Secreto por ley de quórum calificado"
  ],
  "portal": "https://portaltransparencia.cl",
  "turnaround_notes": "The 20-business-day clock is among the better-kept in the region; requests to the DGAC go through the state Portal de Transparencia.",
  "quirks": null,
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Ley Chile (BCN) — Ley 20.285",
      "url": "https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=276363",
      "status": "blocked",
      "checked_at": "2026-08-31"
    }
  ],
  "text": null,
  "text_note": null,
  "agencies": [
    {
      "slug": "cl-cefaa",
      "name": "CEFAA — Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena",
      "local_name": "Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (hoy SEFAA)",
      "abbr": "CEFAA",
      "jurisdiction": "foreign",
      "state": null,
      "state_name": null,
      "country": "Chile",
      "country_code": "CL",
      "category": "transportation",
      "agency_type": "study_group",
      "parent": null,
      "parent_name": "Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC)",
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/cl-cefaa",
      "website": "https://www.dgac.gob.cl",
      "reading_room": null,
      "subject_to_foia": true,
      "law": {
        "id": "cl-transparencia",
        "citation": "Ley N° 20.285 (2008)",
        "statutory_days": 20,
        "business_days": true,
        "appeal_deadline_days": 15
      },
      "intake": [
        {
          "channel": "portal",
          "detail": "https://www.dgac.gob.cl",
          "label": "DGAC — links to SEFAA and the transparency portal",
          "verified": true,
          "verification": "verified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        },
        {
          "channel": "portal",
          "detail": "https://portaltransparencia.cl",
          "label": "Portal de Transparencia del Estado",
          "verified": false,
          "verification": "unverified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        }
      ],
      "submission_readiness": null,
      "holdings": [
        "Case studies of anomalous aerial phenomena reported by pilots, controllers and radar operators since 1997",
        "The 2014 Navy helicopter FLIR case analysis",
        "Selected case publications and technical analyses"
      ],
      "tips": [
        "CEFAA was reorganised as SEFAA (Sección de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos) under the DGAC around 2020 — address the DGAC and name SEFAA.",
        "File through the state Portal de Transparencia against the DGAC; the 20-business-day clock is among the better-kept in the region."
      ],
      "tracking": "Solicitud folio issued by the Portal de Transparencia.",
      "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."
    }
  ]
}