The newspapers in Sörmland's media, which include Eskilstuna-Kuriren, Södermanland News and Katrineholms-Kuriren, have reviewed in several articles how information from authorities in Sörmland was handled during the corona pandemic.

Addressing serious shortcomings

Now editor-in-chief Eva Burman has submitted a notification to the Ombudsman for Justice, JO.

"In my opinion, the deficiencies thus discovered are of such serious nature that JO should investigate the matter and consider initiating a supervisory case," she writes in the report.

Many registered

There are a number of managers and officials who are now reported by the editor-in-chief of Burman:

"The municipal directors and other relevant officials as well as municipal lawyers and social managers in Eskilstuna, Strängnäs, Flen, Katrineholm, Nyköping, Oxelösund, Trosa, Gnesta municipalities and the regional director, the communications director and the chief legal officer in the region of Sörmland", she writes.

Discouraged disclosure of documents

Among other things, she believes that the municipalities and the region together darkened, delayed and counteracted the disclosure of public documents and put forward joint strategies to avoid leaving figures on covid infection in the elderly care.

Managers refuse

However, this has been denied by the managers SVT talked to previously. Among other things, Sari Eriksson, the municipal director in Katrineholm, said:

- The reason we did not disclose detailed information is because we do not have that compilation and we cannot disclose something we do not have.

Johan Lindström, head of the health and care administration in Eskilstuna, said the following about providing accurate information on the distribution of housing for the elderly in the municipality:

- I feel that we cannot disclose that information because no one is at risk of being hanged.