The short version
- Sin Comillas reported that on Tuesday the CPI filed a special legal resource against the AAA in San Juan court for not delivering monthly invoices and documents on Truenorth
- The CPI made the request two months earlier through journalist Amanda Pérez Pintado and exhausted all administrative remedies according to the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
- CPI executive director Carla Minet said the AAA gives no reasons for ignoring requests and that transparency law amendments only give government more time not to answer
- This is the second 2026 lawsuit against the AAA after a March case on Arecibo sewer reconstruction that the CPI won
Second lawsuit in 2026
The Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI) presented a special legal resource against the Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA) on Tuesday in the Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan. Sin Comillas reported the action seeks monthly invoices, reports and other documents on services provided by Truenorth Corporation. The request was made two months earlier by CPI journalist Amanda Pérez Pintado.
The CPI directed the petition to AAA executive president Luis González Delgado, communications director Gian Paul Luciano Ramos and other information officers, yet received no response, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo stated. The journalists exhausted all administrative remedies before filing under Puerto Rico’s transparency law.
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What the sources posted
Posts and statements below are the sources' own words, quoted as published. They are not independently verified.
La AAA no da ni siquiera razones para no responder las peticiones de información como esta.
Our translation: The AAA does not even give reasons for not responding to information requests like this one.
The source's own statement, as quoted by Centro de Periodismo Investigativo. Not verified by PuertoRico.com.
Criticism of government transparency
CPI executive director Carla Minet said the AAA does not even provide reasons for failing to answer information requests. She added that amendments to the transparency law only extended the time government can delay responses. The statement appears in both Sin Comillas and the CPI’s own report.
Pérez Pintado noted that the information would help the public understand efforts to address water loss, a problem that has persisted for decades. The AAA loses more than half the water it produces despite major public investments, she said. The journalist has previously reported with Víctor Rodríguez Velázquez on payments of $50 million to companies to reduce water loss, which has instead worsened, and that the agency allocates only 4 percent of its funds to pipe repairs.
Where the sources differ
Both Sin Comillas and the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo agree on all core facts: the Tuesday filing in San Juan court, the two-month delay since the original request by Amanda Pérez Pintado, the specific documents sought on Truenorth, the names of CPI and AAA officials, and that this is the second 2026 lawsuit after the March Arecibo case. The two reports are nearly identical in content and quotes; the CPI version adds the names of the attorneys and law students who filed the case.
What the reports do not say
The reports do not state what specific services Truenorth Corporation provides to the AAA, the value or dates of the contract, whether the company has responded to the requests, or when the court might rule on the new case. They also do not indicate whether the AAA has replied to the lawsuit or offered any explanation for the delay.
Sources
Every link below was opened and checked when this story was published. Official means a government body, agency or the organization itself; Reporting means a news outlet.
- Reporting Periodistas demandan a la AAA por información sobre Truenorth
- Reporting Al tribunal nuevamente la AAA por información sobre la empresa Truenorth
How we checked this
Sin Comillas and the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo both reported the lawsuit filing and Carla Minet’s criticism of the transparency law. The description of prior CPI investigations on water loss rests on the CPI’s own account. No response from the AAA or Luis González is included in either source.
Compiled by the PuertoRico.com News Desk from the reports and statements listed above, and checked against them before publishing. It does not include original interviews. Spot an error? Email support@puertorico.com with a link to this story.
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