Authorities report 80 people under Sweden’s information duty law

Around 80 people have been reported by authorities since Sweden’s so-called information duty law came into force on July 13, SVT reports.

The law requires authorities to notify the police if there are grounds to believe that someone does not have the right to stay in Sweden. During the law’s first three weeks, around 80 people were reported as suspected of lacking that right, according to figures from the National Border Police Section cited by Svenska Dagbladet.

Most of the reports came from the Swedish Public Employment Service.

Applies to six authorities

The information duty, which critics call the “informant law”, applies to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, the Swedish Enforcement Authority, the Swedish Public Employment Service, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the Swedish Pensions Agency and the Swedish Tax Agency.

The Border Police have no information that anyone has so far been forced to leave Sweden as a result of the new law.