Transparência pública: uma análise do reflexo da Lei de Acesso à Informação relacionada à transparência nos municípios menos populosos da Paraíba

Abstract

The study was based on the Law on Access to Information, LAI (BRAZIL, 2011), seeking to verify the execution of this in the respective electronic addresses of municipalities that have a population between 10 thousand and 20 thousand inhabitants, considering that the minimum number of inhabitants so that the Law on Access to Information is applied is 10 thousand. The data of the municipalities were collected through the last census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), conducted in 2010. The sample of this research was 56 cities, from a universe of 86 municipalities in Paraíba. The research is descriptive, since it observes the behavior of the municipalities according to the Law of Access to Information. The approach was quantitative, when numerically expressing the results obtained, and the technical procedure used was bibliographic and documentary, since this research is based on previous studies that have used Brazilian federal laws in the scope of public transparency. The results showed that municipalities in general need to improve their transparency, since, although LAI was exposed in approximately 63% of the respective electronic addresses, only 48% presented some regulations based on the Law. This number is of concern, evidencing that managers need to pay more attention to the transparency of LAI compliance. In addition, 88% of the municipalities presented a Physical Citizen Information System (SIC) and 84% of them had the Electronic Citizen Information System (e-SIC), demonstrating that most of them agree with LAI in terms of transparency passive.