{
  "id": "mx-transparencia",
  "name": "Ley General de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública",
  "short_name": "LGTAIP",
  "citation": "LGTAIP (DOF 4-5-2015)",
  "jurisdiction": "foreign",
  "state": null,
  "state_name": null,
  "country": "Mexico",
  "country_code": "MX",
  "url": "https://aletheca.com/laws/mx-transparencia",
  "description": "Mexico's general transparency law, filed through the Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia. INAI, the independent oversight body, was dissolved in 2025 and its functions moved into the federal executive.",
  "statutory_days": 20,
  "business_days": true,
  "statutory_text": "20 días hábiles, extendable by 10 with cause.",
  "appeal_deadline_days": 15,
  "appeal_basis": "días hábiles to file a recurso de revisión",
  "appeal_process": "Recurso de revisión within 15 business days — heard since 2025 by Transparencia para el Pueblo, under the anti-corruption secretariat, after INAI's dissolution.",
  "litigation": "Juicio de amparo before the federal courts.",
  "fee_waiver_standard": "Free; reproduction and delivery at cost.",
  "expedited_criteria": [],
  "exemptions": [
    "Seguridad nacional",
    "Información reservada (up to 5 years, renewable)",
    "Datos personales"
  ],
  "portal": "https://www.plataformadetransparencia.org.mx",
  "turnaround_notes": "SEDENA answers in Spanish and leans on the seguridad-nacional reserve for operational detail.",
  "quirks": "The independent appeals body no longer exists; the review now sits inside the executive branch it reviews, which should temper appeal expectations.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia",
      "url": "https://www.plataformadetransparencia.org.mx",
      "status": "blocked",
      "checked_at": "2026-08-31"
    }
  ],
  "text": null,
  "text_note": null,
  "agencies": [
    {
      "slug": "mx-sedena",
      "name": "Secretariat of National Defense",
      "local_name": "Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional",
      "abbr": "SEDENA",
      "jurisdiction": "foreign",
      "state": null,
      "state_name": null,
      "country": "Mexico",
      "country_code": "MX",
      "category": "defense",
      "agency_type": "ministry",
      "parent": null,
      "parent_name": null,
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/mx-sedena",
      "website": "https://www.gob.mx/sedena",
      "reading_room": null,
      "subject_to_foia": true,
      "law": {
        "id": "mx-transparencia",
        "citation": "LGTAIP (DOF 4-5-2015)",
        "statutory_days": 20,
        "business_days": true,
        "appeal_deadline_days": 15
      },
      "intake": [
        {
          "channel": "portal",
          "detail": "https://www.plataformadetransparencia.org.mx",
          "label": "Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia (PNT)",
          "verified": false,
          "verification": "unverified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        }
      ],
      "submission_readiness": null,
      "holdings": [
        "The March 2004 Campeche FLIR incident records, released by the Secretary of Defense that May",
        "Air-surveillance and radar reports from the Sistema Integral de Vigilancia Aérea",
        "Sighting correspondence answered through transparency requests"
      ],
      "tips": [
        "File through the PNT; SEDENA answers in Spanish and leans on the seguridad-nacional reserve for operational detail.",
        "The 2004 Campeche material is the documented precedent — cite the existing release when asking for related records."
      ],
      "tracking": "Folio number issued by the PNT 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."
    }
  ]
}