State of Mexico approves Transparencia Mexiquense

Update August 25, 2026: The Congress of the State of Mexico approved the new Transparency Law and the Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Obligated Entities, completed the dissolution of INFOEM, and set a maximum 180-day limit for its liquidation after the decree is published. It also ordered the State Comptroller’s Office to create Transparencia Mexiquense as a decentralized body.

The Congress of the State of Mexico approved the creation of Transparencia Mexiquense as the new body responsible for public information access and personal data protection, replacing INFOEM, along with two new laws on the subject and amendments to five state statutes. In Mexico City, a reform on digital violence against women is moving forward, and at the federal level, the Cybersecurity Law and the draft General Artificial Intelligence Law remain pending.

What did the Congress of the State of Mexico decide?

The state legislature approved the enactment of a new Transparency and Access to Public Information Law and the Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Obligated Entities in the State of Mexico and its municipalities, along with the creation of Transparencia Mexiquense and related amendments to other state laws.

According to local coverage, the approval formalizes the dissolution of INFOEM and transfers its duties to an entity attached to the state comptroller’s office. The new agency will serve as the guarantor body for the executive branch and municipalities, while requests directed to the judiciary and the legislature will remain under their own comptroller offices.

The approved report combined proposals submitted by Governor Delfina Gómez Álvarez and Deputy Gerardo Pliego Santana. It also included amendments to the State of Mexico Anti-Corruption System Law, the State Archives and Document Administration Law, and the state administrative and financial codes.

What happened to INFOEM and who will take over its duties?

INFOEM’s functions will move to the state comptroller’s office, which must create the decentralized body Transparencia Mexiquense to protect the right of access to public information at the state and municipal levels.

Regional coverage had anticipated that more than 90 percent of the requests now handled by INFOEM would shift to the new model led by Transparencia Mexiquense, while the rest would be divided among other branches of government and internal control bodies. During committee review, state officials said transparency units would remain in each obligated entity.

La Jornada reported that INFOEM’s dissolution was completed with the approval of the new law and that the liquidation process may not exceed 180 days once the decree is published. The plan is for the new agency to operate as a decentralized body of the State Comptroller’s Office, with technical and operational autonomy, but still within the state structure.

What political objections did the reform raise?

The opposition in the State of Mexico argued that eliminating INFOEM would weaken independence in transparency and data protection, and warned that the new model would increase control by the state administration.

The PRI in the State of Mexico opposed the report and said the proposed model weakens the independence of the institutions responsible for guaranteeing these rights. Local lawmakers also rejected the dissolution of INFOEM, arguing that Transparencia Mexiquense would give the state administration greater control over transparency and data protection.

The PRD bloc voted against eliminating INFOEM and warned that moving its functions to an Executive branch office puts institutional autonomy and checks and balances at risk. Coverage by OEM and El Sol de Toluca also reported questions from lawmakers about the independence of the new body and the budgetary and administrative challenges of replacing a constitutionally autonomous agency with one attached to the Executive branch.

How would the deadlines for information requests change?

The draft new transparency law in the State of Mexico would extend the time allowed to respond to information requests and could also lengthen the handling of appeals.

According to Marcaje Legislativo, the standard deadline would increase from 15 to 20 business days, with a possible extension from 7 to 10 business days. In practice, that could push the response time to as much as 30 business days and extend the resolution of appeals to as long as two months, a substantial change in the transparency obligations of obligated entities.

What changes in personal data protection?

The new state law regulates the handling of personal data in the state and municipal public sectors and sets rules for exercising ARCO rights, with specific procedures for access, rectification, cancellation and objection.

Coverage by Diario Portal says the personal data protection law approved by the State of Mexico Congress establishes the basis for data processing in the public sector and strengthens the protection framework for obligated entities in the state and municipalities. INFOEM itself had noted that exercising ARCO rights involves a double identity check, when filing the request and again before the information is handed over, to ensure it is delivered only to the data subject.

What other initiatives are moving in Mexico?

Mexico City is considering a reform to update the definition of digital violence and empower the Public Prosecutor’s Office to immediately order the removal, blocking, destruction or deletion of digital content linked to reported incidents.

The initiative was introduced by Morena lawmaker Brenda Fabiola Ruiz Aguilar before the Permanent Commission and later referred to the Mexico City Congress’s Gender Equality Committee. Deputy Ángel Augusto Tamariz Sánchez joined the proposal, according to coverage by La Crónica de Hoy.

At the federal level, the Cybersecurity Law bill introduced in the Senate on April 30, 2025, remains in committee, without being reported out, voted on in the full chamber, approved by the Chamber of Deputies, or published in the Official Gazette of the Federation. An independent tracking effort places the first realistic political window for a vote starting on September 1, 2026.

There is also a draft General Artificial Intelligence Law in the Senate that remains in committee and does not yet have a specific law approved on the subject. A later report said the floor vote scheduled for February 25, 2026, did not take place, so the bill was not approved by the full Senate.

The Chamber of Deputies, meanwhile, still has pending several initiatives related to cybercrime and the misuse of artificial intelligence, including a draft decree to add a chapter to the Federal Penal Code titled "Theft and digital identity theft and extortionate digital violence," filed in July 2026 by Deputy Marcelo Torres Cofiño (PAN) and sent to the Justice Committee.

In addition, a regional review of data protection and artificial intelligence notes that Mexico has had a new Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties since February 2025, along with a General Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Obligated Entities, in force since March 21, 2025, which reshape oversight and compliance in the field.