Findings

Every finding of the Defender is published in full, with the remedy proposed and the answer received.

Subject

Outcome

Findings of the year to date. Columns may be sorted.
Date	Body	Right engaged	Outcome	What was found
2 July 2026	Communal housing service, Lindoma	Article 65, adequate housing	Upheld	Allocation criteria published in terms no applicant could follow. Republished within thirty days, with the calculation available to each applicant.
11 June 2026	Public order service, Eastern Region	Article 50, private life	Upheld	Predictive placement of patrols profiled residents through their neighbourhood. Cessation ordered by the data division.
29 May 2026	Place of detention, Cortius	Article 47, prohibition of ill treatment	Upheld in part	Two persons held beyond the interval at which a judge must review the deprivation of liberty. Released the same day. The register defect was systemic and has been corrected.
17 April 2026	Regional training service, Western Region	Article 51(7), prohibited scoring	Upheld	Applicants ranked by an automated system. Cessation ordered, and places reallocated by a person on published criteria.
5 March 2026	Ferrista ironworks	Article 116, arduous tasks	Upheld	Tasks registered as arduous for four years with no engineering measure recorded. Programme of measures published and under supervision.
20 February 2026	Communal office, Torvena	Article 62, essential provision	Not upheld	Provision was suspended for eleven days by a fault in a records system. The commune restored it, made reparation, and the complaint disclosed no conditioning of provision upon conduct.
14 January 2026	Branch federation of transport	Article 68, transport	Upheld	Service withdrawn from two settlements without the procedure the article requires. Restored on an interim order of the court, on the application of the Defender.

Findings of no violation

The Torvena complaint was not upheld, and it appears above with the reasons. Provision stopped for eleven days through a fault in a records system, the commune restored it and made reparation, and the file disclosed no conditioning of provision upon conduct. Complaints not upheld are published on the same terms as complaints upheld.

Answers and failures to answer

Answers received, year to 30 June 2026.
Response	Findings
Answered within sixty days, remedy accepted	19
Answered within sixty days, finding disputed	4
Answered late	2
Unanswered, recorded in the annual report	3
Referred to a court after failure to remedy	5

A body that disputes a finding says so in its answer, and the answer is published beside the finding. Four bodies did this, and two of those disputes are now before a court.