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§ Dossier · WEST AFRICA · updated 22 July 2026

Sierra Leone

Regulator
Right to Access Information Commission (ATI only; combined DP/ATI commission proposed in bill)
Law
Data Protection and Right to Access Information Bill (national validation concluded Nov 2025; National Data Protection Policy approved April 2026)
Status
No comprehensive law in force
Authority
Right to Access Information Commission (ATI only; combined DP/ATI commission proposed in bill), established 2014
bill
DP law status
Data Protection and Right to Access Information Bill (national validation concluded Nov 2025; National Data Protection Policy approved April 2026)
None found
enforcement activity
as of the last landscape verification
No
decisions published
no public record to collect

The law

Data Protection and Right to Access Information Bill (national validation concluded Nov 2025; National Data Protection Policy approved April 2026) (2025) is before the legislature as a bill. A full guide to this law is in preparation; the landscape dataset carries the verified status.

Access to information

Right to Access Information Act 2013 IN FORCE

The regulator

Authority
Right to Access Information Commission (ATI only; combined DP/ATI commission proposed in bill)
Established
2014
Operational
Yes
Enforcing
No enforcement activity found
Publishes decisions
No

Enforcement record

No enforcement decisions could be found for this jurisdiction as of the last verification pass (22 July 2026). A country with no published enforcement is a data point, not a gap: see the 54-state publication scorecard.

Related reading

Analysis is at lawlab.africa/analysis; method, inclusion rules and the correction policy are on the methodology page.

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