O direito fundamental de acesso à informação: uma análise sob a ótica do princípio da transparência

Abstract

This research has as goal to demonstrate that the administrative law principles should to follow the changes in the society, as the other legal systems standards, to follow the changes in the society, and so, they should to exclude the old posture, fitting the requirement of a transparent and democratic public administration, forcing the trust between citizens and public agents. The law nº. 12.527, enacted on November 18th in 2011, and the Law on Access to Public Information, that enshrines the principle of the Administrative Transparency Act, and requires that the Public Administration act according to the dictates of democracy. A democratic State does not tolerate the concept of a Public Administration whose rule is confidentiality. The access to information is conceived as a democratic fundamental right, so, the transparency principle establishes the requirement that there be not only advertising of acts of public administration, but effective access to information. Thus, will be used the deductive method, the method of monographic procedure and as a technical procedure will be used the bibliography research, by study of doctrines dealing with the subject. First, the relation between democracy will be highlighted the relation between democracy, Democratic State, and the role of Pubic Administration under the principle of transparency. Then will be analyzed the contents and the structure of the right of access to public information and the principle of transparency, as instruments to end corruption. In this sense, this research tries to understand the way in which the law nº. 12.527/2011 is a breakthrough for the Brazilian legal system, to understand the reversal of the paradigm of the secrecy and demonstrate the paths until the issue of the legal document, and to verify if it enhanced the citizen s participation in the management of the interests protected by the Public Administration in a Democratic State.