Análise do conhecimento da lei de acesso a informação pelos acadêmicos do curso de bacharelado em Administração Pública (EaD) da Unversidade Federal de Santa Maria

Abstract

The Brazilian public administration in recent years has undergone huge changes, especially as regards the transparency of public acts and access the information, ensues from the entry into force of the Law 12.527/2011(Law Access to Information) and Law 931/2009 (Law of transparency). With the adoption and promulgation of these laws, the Brazilian State made a very important step in the completion of its democratic regime, strengthening the popular participation and consequently, increasing social control, transparency and optimization of expenditures in public management. Faced with this reality, this work aims to analyze whether in practice the law on access to information is of knowledge of the population, aiming to check the level of knowledge and use of same by students of the course of Bachelor in Public Administration of the Federal University of Santa Maria. Through a descriptive study, of quantitative nature with data collected from a questionnaire applied to them, via email, with Google Forms aid, with a sample of 53 respondents, it was found that future public officials consider the law of utmost importance to improving public management and social control, however showed average knowledge of it and their rights and consider that in practice the Access to Information Act is not meeting its objective to promote public transparency.