Court Orders "Presidential Office to Disclose 'Public Official Inspection Team Operation Regulations'"

A court ruling has been issued requiring the disclosure of the operating regulations for the Presidential Office's Public Official Inspection and Investigation Team.

On the 5th, the Administrative Division 3 of the Seoul Administrative Court (Presiding Judge Choi Su-jin) ruled partially in favor of the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy against the Presidential Office, seeking cancellation of the refusal to disclose information.

According to this ruling, the Presidential Office must disclose the valid operating regulations for the Public Official Inspection and Investigation Team and the work processing guidelines related to the collection, analysis, and management of digital data as of the time of the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy's information disclosure request (January of last year).

However, the court dismissed the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy's request to disclose the basis regulations under which the Presidential Office's Public Official Discipline Secretary's Office inspects the Korea Communications Commission. A dismissal means the case is concluded without examining the merits because the lawsuit does not meet procedural requirements.

The People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy filed the lawsuit after their information disclosure request to the President in January last year was denied, arguing that "the internal inspection organization of the Presidential Office is practically impossible to monitor externally and could be misused as a channel to pressure individual agencies, raising serious concerns about abuse of power."

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