Puerto Rico · Ley de Transparencia y Procedimiento Expedito
Puerto Rico's Ley de Transparencia, in Spanish and English, on a twenty-business-day clock
AccessPoint manages access-to-information requests under Ley 141-2019, as amended by Ley 80-2021 and Ley 156-2025 — the twenty-business-day response (thirty for regional offices and larger or older files), the single twenty-day extension, and the Recurso Especial before the Tribunal de Primera Instancia — pre-configured for Puerto Rico, with a Spanish-language interface and Spanish templates, running inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant.
Puerto Rico at a glance
- Response standard
- Twenty business days from receipt; thirty where the records sit in regional offices or are larger or older files; one extension of up to twenty business days — silence is a deemed denial
- Enforcement
- No administrative appeal — Recurso Especial before the Tribunal de Primera Instancia within a strict thirty-day term (Art. 9); an agency that then ignores the court's resolution faces a fine up to $100 a day (Art. 10, added by Ley 156-2025)
- Exemptions
- The confidentiality grounds recognized in Puerto Rico case law and carried into the Act, plus the Ley 122-2019 open-data exceptions
- Charges
- Inspection is free; copies at direct cost
- Oversight
- Tribunal de Primera Instancia — an expedited recourse with no filing fee that the requester may bring in their own right
- Languages
- Spanish and English
Built for Puerto Rico
One platform for the whole access-and-privacy mandate, pre-configured for this regime and running in your own Microsoft 365 tenant.
Ley 141-2019 request lifecycle
Intake to release under the Ley de Transparencia — the twenty-business-day response, the single extension notice, and delivery in the format requested — all on Microsoft 365, in Spanish or English.
The twenty-business-day clock
Twenty business days from receipt, thirty where the records sit in regional offices or are larger or older files, and one extension of up to twenty more — with silence treated as a denial that opens the Recurso Especial. AccessPoint computes each date on receipt and drafts the extension notice.
Confidentiality grounds from case law
Puerto Rico's confidentiality grounds come from the Supreme Court's jurisprudence — a statute that declares the information confidential, an evidentiary privilege, the fundamental rights of third parties — and are carried into the Act alongside the Ley 122-2019 open-data exceptions. AccessPoint ships each as a citable ground.
Spanish and English
AccessPoint's interface is available in Spanish, and the Puerto Rico pack ships Spanish acknowledgement, extension, release, and denial templates alongside English ones — so a requester is answered in the language they wrote in.
Redaction by ground
Apply the confidentiality grounds line by line on a colour-coded, audit-trailed redaction record — each redaction tied to the ground the entity would defend before the Tribunal.
In your own tenant
Every request and record stays inside your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant — no third-party cloud, no cross-border transfers, and no per-user fees.
El Recurso Especial
In Puerto Rico, a denied request goes to court on a clock as short as the agency's.
Ley 141-2019 has no commissioner, no ombudsman, and no administrative appeal. What it has instead is the Recurso Especial: an expedited judicial remedy before the Tribunal de Primera Instancia that a requester must file within a strict thirty-day term after a denial or a deemed denial. It carries no filing fee, may be brought by the requester in their own right, and requires the government entity to answer within ten days before the court resolves on an expedited basis. Ley 80-2021 removed the last friction by letting the recourse be filed in the requester's own judicial region rather than only in San Juan, and Ley 156-2025 reset the clock — twenty business days, thirty for regional offices and larger or older files, with one twenty-day extension — and added a backstop of its own: an agency that loses the Recurso Especial and still does not comply can be fined up to $100 a day under the new Article 10. Every date on that timeline is one a court may be asked to check within weeks. AccessPoint computes them on receipt and keeps the record, in Spanish or English, that the entity files in answer.
Configured out of the box
Installing the us-pr-lta jurisdiction pack seeds your tenant with everything this regime needs — a starting point you can adjust, not a lock-in.
Pack content last reviewed: 2026-09-03
Related guide: FOI Workflow Quick Check- Ley 141-2019, as amended by Ley 80-2021 and Ley 156-2025, as the legal-authority and citation spine
- The Puerto Rico public-holiday calendar and the twenty- and thirty-business-day response and twenty-day extension due-date rules
- The confidentiality grounds recognized in case law and the Ley 122-2019 open-data exceptions, colour-coded for redaction and citable line by line
- Deemed-denial tracking when the term lapses, with the thirty-day Recurso Especial window surfaced alongside it
- Spanish and English correspondence templates — acknowledgement, extension notice, release, and denial
- AccessPoint's Spanish-language interface for coordinators and requesters
- The Recurso Especial record — the timestamped trail the entity answers with inside ten days, and the compliance record a court checks against the Article 10 fine
- Free inspection and direct-cost copy charges, itemized
Puerto Rico Questions
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Flat annual pricing, published in full. Every feature in every size — access requests, privacy impact assessments, breach response, complaints, video & audio redaction, and AI Assist. No per-user or per-module fees.
- Under 500 employees$2,990/yr
- 500–2,000 employees$7,990/yr
- Over 2,000 employees$14,990/yr
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