The Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP) ordered the declassification and delivery of procurement documents.
Following an order from the Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP), San Salvador City Hall canceled the reservation of information regarding the hiring of Eye Tech Solutions (ETS) to install the video surveillance system in the capital.
The commune reserved the information for 5 years, which started running in February 2020, but after several citizens appealed to the IAIP for the documentation to be delivered because it was a public process, the Institute decided in September last year that the mayor the office declassified the documentation and handed it over to the petitioners.
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Thus, on September 23, 2020, through a memorandum, the municipality gave the green light to the declassification of documents regarding the employment process, but the decision was notified this week by the IAIP to some of the applicants.
The City Hall argued with the Institute that the delay in providing information to reach applicants was due to the suspension of administrative and judicial deadlines that occurred in the first months of the pandemic last year and then due to the gradual incorporation of municipal employees in various areas.
The reasons given by the mayor
Among the reasons presented by the mayor’s office last year, based on the Law on access to public information, for refusing information on hiring the Mexican company EyeTech Solutions SA de CV for over 84 million dollars was that “puts national defense and public security” and that ” the life, safety or health of any person was clearly endangered ‘because it contained’ very sensitive information ‘and could fall into’ the wrong hands’.
On January 17, 2020, the San Salvador City Council awarded for 15 years the “Public Service Concession of the monitoring system and technology platform Smart City (Smart City), for the prevention of violence, crime and local development of the municipality of San Salvador.”
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According to documents from Mexico’s public trade register, Israeli Yaniv David Zangilevitch became the representative of the ETS, which did business with several Mexican cities.
Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt said the project would install more than 1,300 rooms in at least 100 points in the capital.