124 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 5 April rejected asylum seekers – not for persons with Managements of public authorities also have freedom of expression tolerated residence status or persons sentenced The Ombudsman frequently criticises infringe­ Based on an overall assessment, the monitoring visit ments by public authorities of their employees’ gave the Ombudsman no cause to take further freedom of expression. In an article in his Annual action. to deportation. Report for 2016, which has just been published, the Ombudsman looks at the issue from manage­ 25 April ments’ perspective. He explains, among other New Director General of Ombudsman institution things, that managements of public authorities are permitted to reply to criticism from employees – as long as it is done for a legitimate purpose and Louise Vadheim Guldberg will be the new Director in a legitimate manner. General of the Ombudsman institution from 1 Au­gust 2017, when the present Director General, 6 April Jonas Bering Liisberg, will take up the position of Critical journalistic approach not grounds for refusal of access to information State Secretary for Foreign Policy with the Ministry An authority cannot refuse access to information New IT solutions must facilitate access by the public to information on the basis of an assumption that the information would be used for critical articles. of Foreign Affairs. 3 May New IT solutions – including databases – in the So says the Parliamentary Ombudsman after in­ public sector must to the greatest extent possible vestigating a case about access to export licences facilitate access by the public to information. That for surveillance technology. (...) follows from the Access to Public Administration Files Act. 18 April Ombudsman enters ‘Ry case’ The Parliamentary Ombudsman has just sent this The Ombudsman has asked the municipality and with the Ministry’s developing a new macroeconomic the school of the boys involved in the so-called ‘Ry model. message to the Ministry of Finance in connection case’ for various information relating to the boys. 4 May The case concerns the incident which took place on 6 February 2017 in the town of Ry where a 16-year-old boy suffered serious burns after a group of boys of the same age allegedly threw a bottle of burning petrol at him. Technical University of Denmark had to give access to external evaluation report A journalist at a journal was at first denied access to an evaluation report commissioned by the 19 April Technical University of Denmark (DTU) of the de­ Rejected asylum seekers at Depar­ ture Centre Kærshovedgård treated according to rules partment DTU Transport. The report had been pre­ On 31 October 2016, the Ombudsman made a mon­ the Ombudsman’s investigation of the case, the itoring visit to Departure Centre Kærshovedgård. journalist was given access to the whole report. The visit exclusively concerned the conditions for pared by five external researchers and contained a fairly critical evaluation of the quality of the research carried out by DTU Transport. Following