CONTENTS The Ombudsman institution in 2015 Jørgen Steen Sørensen, Parliamentary Ombudsman 6 Organisation 12 The Ombudsman and the international conventions 32 When schools have to be legal eagles 42 Limits to ministers’ ‘political communication’ 50 Extraction – the complex exercise of the Access to Public Administration Files Act 58 Eyewitness to forced deportations by the police 66 Facts and figures about our monitoring activities 72 Jonas Bering Liisberg, Director General Vibeke Lundmark, Deputy Head of Division Jørgen Steen Sørensen, Parliamentary Ombudsman Lisbeth Adserballe, Head of Division, and Lise Puggard, Special Legal Advisor Klavs Kinnerup Hede, Director of International Relations OVERVIEW OF THE YEAR The year in figures 107 Statement of revenue and expenditure – 2015 121 Summaries of selected statements 125 News published in 2015 187