A transparência e o acesso à informação na gestão pública das câmaras municipais da Região das Missões

Abstract

The paper deals with the transparency and access to public information in Public Administration and the position adopted by the Municipal Councils of the Region of Missions of the State of Rio Grande do Sul in relation to the theme, and aims to analyze the portals of the Legislative Power of the Municipalities of the Missions Region, if they make available the information required by the Access to Information Law, specifically to the legal provisions regarding "passive transparency" that the Court of Auditors of the State of Rio Grande do Sul periodically audits. The research also shows which Chambers received the Good Practices of Transparency in the Internet in 2015, an award that the Court of Audit of the State of Rio Grande do Sul instituted to promote good practices in public administration in May 2014, aiming to stimulate the population to use the instruments of the Law of Access to Information and to sensitize public managers. Institutional sites that met the requirements established by the TCE-RS with a diploma and a digital seal were awarded. Based on bibliographical researches and legal dictates on the subject, a comparative parameter is related between the portals of twenty-six Municipal Chambers of the Region of the Missions, belonging to the Association of Municipalities of the Missions, in which it is verified the compliance or not information required by law. The result of the research shows that of the twenty-six Municipalities only three received the TCE-RS award in the year 2015, and related to transparency data collected from the TCE-RS website, for the period 2016 and 2017, with evaluation of the seven Chambers of municipalities with more than ten thousand inhabitants, in 2016 four Chambers provided all the information required by the legislation and in the year 2017 six made available. The survey also shows the number of requests for information made by citizens through the internet, in which seventy-seven applications were made during the period from 2014 to 2018. The work is important as it has proved that some Chambers do not meet all the requirements of the Law of Access to Information and allowed to verify the interest of the citizen in supervising the public manager through the requests of information realized by the internet. Suggestions for improving the dissemination of the Law on Access to Information by the City Councils are presented, thus helping to encourage the population to use the means of information technology to combat corruption.