The Brazilian state and transparency
Subtitle: evaluating compliance with freedom of information = Avaliação de transparência do : estado brasileiro e do poder judiciário
By: Gregory Michener, Luiz Fernando Marrey Moncau, Rafael Velasco
Edition: FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School edition.
Publisher: Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: por; eng
Translated from: por
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9788563265685
Subjects: Freedom of information
Other titles: Evaluating compliance with freedom of information; Avaliação de transparência do, estado brasileiro e do poder judiciário
Description: "This report analyzes the degree of compliance of the Brazilian government agencies with the Access to Information Act (LAI, Portuguese initials) after two and a half years of the law's effectiveness. For that, two evaluations were developed. The general, which totalized more than 450 requests for information access sent to the organs of the three powers, at the federal, state and municipal levels. The second appraisal, the judiciary, was directed to the courts, computing more thatn 260 applications, evaluating courts of the first instance, regional courts and superior tribunals. The responses were examined alighted by the method developed by professors and researchers of the Brazilian School of Public Administration and Business (EBAPE, Portuguese initials) and the Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro."--
Notes: "Open Society Foundation"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

English and Portuguese; Portuguese text bound in reverse, English selected.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary -- Introduction; title: Methodology --; title: Results --; title: Best practices and barriers to transparency --; title: Audit of the platforms used to manage FOI requests --; title: Results --; title: Barriers to transparency and access --; title: Evaluating the platforms used to manage freedom of information requests.