La nueva Ley de Transparencia de la Región de Murcia crea la figura de un comisionado

The Region of Murcia has approved a reform of its Transparency Law that eliminates the collegial Transparency Council and replaces it with a single independent commissioner from the private sector. This change aims to centralize the resolution of complaints regarding access to public information in a single-person office, whose appointment is made by the Regional Assembly, with the theoretical goal of streamlining processes and ensuring impartiality in contrast to the previous bureaucratic structure. The measure has sparked intense political dispute, with opposition parties alleging that the reform weakens democratic oversight mechanisms and facilitates arbitrary governance, while the executive branch justifies the change as an improvement in administrative efficiency. The controversy highlights the tension between the pursuit of speed in public management and the protection of collective structures that have traditionally supervised the right to information. This article is relevant to the open data movement because it questions the institutional architecture necessary to guarantee genuine transparency. Concentrating oversight in a single individual, rather than in a collegial body with diverse representation, poses significant risks to accountability and the independence of the bodies that ensure public information is truly available and accessible to citizens—elements essential for an open data society.

Source: larazon.es
Published on 2024-07-04

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