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  "id": "dk-offentlighedslov",
  "name": "Offentlighedsloven",
  "short_name": "Offentlighedsloven",
  "citation": "Lov nr. 606 af 12. juni 2013",
  "jurisdiction": "foreign",
  "state": null,
  "state_name": null,
  "country": "Denmark",
  "country_code": "DK",
  "url": "https://aletheca.com/laws/dk-offentlighedslov",
  "description": "Denmark's access law, with a 7-working-day target — the fastest fixed clock in this register. The Air Force released its UFO archive in January 2009.",
  "statutory_days": 7,
  "business_days": true,
  "statutory_text": "As soon as possible, and within 7 working days unless volume or complexity makes that impossible — in which case the requester must be told why, and when to expect an answer.",
  "appeal_deadline_days": null,
  "appeal_basis": null,
  "appeal_process": "Complaint routed through the authority to its superior body, then the Folketing's Ombudsman.",
  "litigation": "The courts are rarely used; the Ombudsman is the effective route.",
  "fee_waiver_standard": "Free for most electronic access.",
  "expedited_criteria": [],
  "exemptions": [
    "§31 Statens sikkerhed og rigets forsvar",
    "§30 Private forhold"
  ],
  "portal": null,
  "turnaround_notes": "The Flyvertaktisk Kommando UFO registrations (1978–2002, about 300 pages) were released and published online in January 2009 — ask for the release, not for aktindsigt on records already public.",
  "quirks": null,
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Retsinformation — Offentlighedsloven (lov nr. 606 af 12. juni 2013)",
      "url": "https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2013/606",
      "status": "blocked",
      "checked_at": "2026-08-31"
    }
  ],
  "text": null,
  "text_note": null,
  "agencies": [
    {
      "slug": "dk-forsvaret",
      "name": "Danish Defence",
      "local_name": "Forsvaret",
      "abbr": null,
      "jurisdiction": "foreign",
      "state": null,
      "state_name": null,
      "country": "Denmark",
      "country_code": "DK",
      "category": "defense",
      "agency_type": "armed_forces",
      "parent": null,
      "parent_name": null,
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/dk-forsvaret",
      "website": "https://www.forsvaret.dk",
      "reading_room": null,
      "subject_to_foia": true,
      "law": {
        "id": "dk-offentlighedslov",
        "citation": "Lov nr. 606 af 12. juni 2013",
        "statutory_days": 7,
        "business_days": true,
        "appeal_deadline_days": null
      },
      "intake": [
        {
          "channel": "portal",
          "detail": "https://www.forsvaret.dk",
          "label": "Danish Defence website",
          "verified": true,
          "verification": "verified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        },
        {
          "channel": "email",
          "detail": "fko@mil.dk",
          "label": "Defence Command (Forsvarskommandoen)",
          "verified": false,
          "verification": "unverified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        }
      ],
      "submission_readiness": null,
      "holdings": [
        "The Air Force UFO archive — Flyvertaktisk Kommando sighting registrations, 1978–2002, about 300 pages, released January 2009",
        "Older sighting reports transferred to the Rigsarkivet"
      ],
      "tips": [
        "The 2009 release was published to the Air Force's website — ask for the release itself, and for registrations after 2002.",
        "Aktindsigt carries a 7-working-day target, the fastest fixed clock in this register."
      ],
      "tracking": "Journal number issued on acknowledgement.",
      "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."
    }
  ]
}