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  "id": "uy-laip",
  "name": "Ley de Derecho de Acceso a la Información Pública",
  "short_name": "Ley 18.381",
  "citation": "Ley N° 18.381 (2008)",
  "jurisdiction": "foreign",
  "state": null,
  "state_name": null,
  "country": "Uruguay",
  "country_code": "UY",
  "url": "https://aletheca.com/laws/uy-laip",
  "description": "Uruguay's access law, with a silence rule that favours the requester: no answer inside the deadline creates a right of access rather than an implied refusal.",
  "statutory_days": 20,
  "business_days": true,
  "statutory_text": "20 días hábiles, extendable once by 20 more with reasons.",
  "appeal_deadline_days": null,
  "appeal_basis": null,
  "appeal_process": "Report to the UAIP (Unidad de Acceso a la Información Pública), or an acción de acceso before the courts, which must be decided in days.",
  "litigation": "Acción de acceso a la información — a summary judicial action with a statutory turnaround.",
  "fee_waiver_standard": "Free apart from reproduction costs.",
  "expedited_criteria": [],
  "exemptions": [
    "Art. 9 Información reservada (incl. seguridad pública y defensa nacional)",
    "Art. 10 Información confidencial"
  ],
  "portal": null,
  "turnaround_notes": "CRIDOVNI has operated inside the Air Force since 1979 and has periodically opened its case archive to researchers.",
  "quirks": "Silence past the deadline is deemed release, not refusal — the inverse of France and Spain.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "IMPO — Ley N° 18.381",
      "url": "https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/18381-2008",
      "status": "verified",
      "checked_at": "2026-08-31"
    }
  ],
  "text": null,
  "text_note": null,
  "agencies": [
    {
      "slug": "uy-cridovni",
      "name": "CRIDOVNI — UFO Report Reception and Investigation Commission",
      "local_name": "Comisión Receptora e Investigadora de Denuncias de Objetos Voladores No Identificados",
      "abbr": "CRIDOVNI",
      "jurisdiction": "foreign",
      "state": null,
      "state_name": null,
      "country": "Uruguay",
      "country_code": "UY",
      "category": "defense",
      "agency_type": "study_group",
      "parent": null,
      "parent_name": "Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya",
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/uy-cridovni",
      "website": "https://www.gub.uy",
      "reading_room": null,
      "subject_to_foia": true,
      "law": {
        "id": "uy-laip",
        "citation": "Ley N° 18.381 (2008)",
        "statutory_days": 20,
        "business_days": true,
        "appeal_deadline_days": null
      },
      "intake": [
        {
          "channel": "mail",
          "detail": "Comando General de la Fuerza Aérea, Av. Don Pedro de Mendoza 5553, Montevideo",
          "label": "Air Force headquarters",
          "verified": false,
          "verification": "unverified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        },
        {
          "channel": "portal",
          "detail": "https://www.gub.uy",
          "label": "gub.uy state portal (Fuerza Aérea section)",
          "verified": false,
          "verification": "unverified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        }
      ],
      "submission_readiness": null,
      "holdings": [
        "Case files on some two thousand reports received since 1979, with a small unexplained residue",
        "Field investigation reports and witness interviews",
        "Periodic public summaries; portions of the archive were opened to researchers in 2009"
      ],
      "tips": [
        "The oldest standing official UAP commission in the Americas (1979), and still active — ask for case summaries by year.",
        "Ley 18.381's silence rule favours the requester: no answer in 20 business days creates a right of access."
      ],
      "tracking": null,
      "confidence": "medium",
      "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."
    }
  ]
}