A arquivística na esfera municipal e os direitos do cidadão: estudo de caso no município de Portão/RS

Abstract

This work intends to investigate the legal bases that provide access to archival information, comparing practices applied in the Portão city`s administrative documentation, located in Vale do Rio dos Sinos, in the Greater Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. It is hoped that this work will useful for others municipalities, beyond the Portão city, reflecting on the necessity to organize your documents, considering the legal aspects involved and the tools to access information by community in general as part of their priorities, stimulating and ensuring the exercise of citizenship. The installation of municipal archives, the proper planning and document management are major challenges for archivists. This is a service provided for in federal legislation and the municipalities will have to gradually put it into practice, deploying municipal archives, preserving collections and ensuring free access to documents and information contained therein. The documentary collection of the Portão city reflects rather the reality of many other cities, where lack of knowledge and disregard condemn part of the documentation, making research impossible to do and neglecting the citizen rights. So, understand and explain this dynamic, as this work is being proposed, is an essential ingredient to propose an appropriate document management system and allow a transparent public administration.