Constitutional Chamber Takes Up Challenge to Costa Rica State-Secrecy Decree
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- Costa Rica’s Constitutional Chamber accepted for review a legal action challenging parts of a decree restricting access to information from the National Security Council, DIS and Elite Force.
- The case concerns the classification of security budgets, contracts and operations as state secrets.
- The action seeks to annul articles of the executive measure that limit access to the information.
Costa Rica’s Constitutional Chamber has taken up a legal challenge against an executive decree that restricts access to information on public security and the use of state funds.
The action was filed by a lawyer from San Carlos. It seeks to annul articles of the decree that classify information from the National Security Council, the DIS and the Elite Force as state secrets.
The court is examining challenges involving the reservation of information about the security bodies’ budgets, contracting and operations.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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