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Information shall be communicated in the form and state in which it is held by public agencies. The obligation of public agencies to communicate information does not include the processing of same, or its delivery in accordance with the requester’s preference. The loss, destruction, alteration or concealment of public information and of the documents in which it is contained shall be penalized in the terms stated in this Law and other applicable legal ordinances. CHAPTER II THE MINIMUM IN<strong>FOR</strong>MATION TO BE ROUTINELY DISSEMINATED BY PUBLIC AGENCIES. Article 9. Public agencies shall routinely disseminate, at a minimum, the following key information: I. Their working structure, the services they provide, the competencies of each of their administrative units and their functional norms. II. III. IV. A directory of their public servants, from the level of department head or the equivalent down. The monthly salary of each position, including the system for compensation as established by the Income and Budget Expenditures of the State of Sinaloa Law (Ley de Ingresos y Presupuesto de Egresos del Estado de Sinaloa) for the corresponding fiscal year, or the corresponding legal ordinance. Opinions, information and arguments recorded in administrative files that justify the granting of permits, concessions or licences that public agencies are entitled to grant by law, as well as contracts, biddings and the procedures for acquiring goods or services. V. Organizational handbooks and, in general, the legal provisions that enable public agencies to act as such. VI. VII. VIII. IX. The information resulting from audits of the budget expenditures of each of the public agencies, as well as the minutes of official meetings. The name of recipients of any public resources, and the use authorized for those resources, wherever they are destined. Reports submitted by political parties to the state’s electoral authorities as soon as they are received by these authorities. The name, address and electronic mail address, if there is one, of the public servants responsible for receiving and handling requests for public information. X. The policies governing citizen participation, if any, in public authorities’ decision-making processes.
XI. XII. The services provided by the agency as well as procedures, requirements and forms required to have access to the same. Any other information that may be useful for enabling citizens to exercise the right of access to public information. Article 10. All public agencies are obligated to periodically update the information referred to above. For this purpose, the Commission shall create operative norms and for establishing simple, comprehensible, clear steps for expediting consultation of the information routinely disseminated by public agencies. Article 11. Every public agency shall systematize key information to facilitate access to same, as well as make it public by all available means. Likewise, public agencies shall make public all information contained in writing, photographs, graphs, recordings, electronic or digital records, or any other medium that is in their possession or under their control. Article 12. During any meeting in which public decisions are discussed and adopted, a minute shall be prepared and kept in official archives. CHAPTER III PROMOTING OPENNESS Article 13. All public agencies shall work together with the Commission to provide training and constant updates to their officers on the subject of the right to information and theexercise of Hábeas Data by designing courses, seminars, workshops and any other teaching and training techniques considered appropriate. Article 14. The Commission shall endeavor to include some content describing the social importance of the right to access to public information and the right of Hábeas Data in a democratic society in all study programs and plans in preschool, elementary, secondary and teacher education as well as in the training of elementary school teachers. For this purpose, the Commission shall assist educational authorities in the preparing this content and designing educational materials for these plans and programs. Article 15. Public and private universities shall endeavor to include topics in which the importance of the right of access to public information and the right of Hábeas Data can be debated in their curricular and extracurricular academic activities. The Commission shall promote, jointly with superior educational institutes, the establishment of a center for researching, disseminating, and teaching the right of access to public information in order to promote knowledge of this right throughout society and assist the Commission in the performance of its duties. CHAPTER IV ON CLASSIFIED AND CONFIDENTIAL IN<strong>FOR</strong>MATION Article 16. The right to access public information shall only be restricted in the terms this Law establishes for defining private and confidential information.
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