Fatores associados com o grau de transparência passiva nos municípios do triângulo mineiro.

Abstract

Transparency of information is an important tool for the control of public acts, since it makes it possible to monitor public spending, enabling the population to participate, and claim from its political representatives a better application of resources, contributing to the prevention of corruption in the country . The present study aims to verify if the Municipalities of the Triâ-ngulo Mineiro are in compliance with the Law of Access to Information (LAI) n. 12,527 / 2011, as regards passive transparency. The research was carried out following the descriptive approach to the objectives; qualitative approach to the problem; bibliographical and documen-tary information regarding procedures. Their electronic portals were also analyzed as second-ary objective. For the execution of this work, 40 municipalities were selected, the 20 most populous and the least populated in the Triangulo Mineiro. A protocol, specially designed for this experiment, was applied to each case only with the request of accounting questions, which was previously tested in 5 municipalities, also of the Triângulo Mineiro, randomly selected. As for the results of the research, 45% of the respondents did not give any type of return, 10% of the municipalities responded, 2.5% of the munitions did not have an LAI tool, and 27.5% presented problems in the LAI mechanism. The results indicate that compliance with the Ac-cess to Information Law has been low in the municipalities of the Triângulo Mineiro.