Criticism of the Government Offices of Sweden for slow processing of a request for the disclosure of email logs

Summary of the decision: The Government Offices of Sweden is criticised for failing to process a request for access to email logs with the promptness required by the Freedom of the Press Act (SFS 1949:105).

It is not permitted to dispose of a document while there is an outstanding request to access it that has not yet been finally examined. The Parliamentary Ombudsman holds that it must therefore be ensured that an email log is not automatically deleted while it is the subject of a request for access.