Transparência na Gestão Pública: o caso do município de Cascavel-Ceará

Abstract

Public Transparency is an issue that is gaining increasing prominence in the dynamics of government administration, as well as in the media and society. Access to public data is a constitutional right that must be enforced in all spheres of government. Thus, in the last two decades, basic legal provisions related to Public Transparency have emerged, the Fiscal Responsibility Law - LRF (BRASIL, 2000), Complementary Law 131/2009 - Transparency Law, Law on Access to Information - LAI (Brasil, 2011) and Law 13,460/2017 that imposes transparency in the public service. The study aimed to analyze the transparency in Public Management in the municipalities of Cascavel/CE and Cascavel/PR through the investigation of electronic portals. The research aimed to make a comparison between two different regions, the northeast, and the south and with different populations, as Cascavel/CE has an estimated population of more than seventy-two thousand citizens, while Cascavel/PR has a population of more than three hundred thousand inhabitants according to estimates by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Among the specific objectives, this work investigated the history of the creation of the Transparency Portal in the two municipalities, identification of the evaluation policies of municipal portals and verification of the statistics of requests for the last two years as well as the implementation of the information currently contained in the portals. The research was qualitative and exploratory in nature, as it aimed to further investigate the theme. As for the procedures, it was a documental study in which secondary sources were used, such as the normative dimension regarding social control and transparency in public management. The study of the electronic portals of Cascavel/CE and Cascavel/PR went through bureaucratic obstacles to be carried out, the denials and vague answers by the agencies and responsibles of the Ceará municipality prevented the research from being carried out in a concrete way. The municipality of Cascavel/CE has poor information management and aspects to be improved. On the other hand, Cascavel/PR demonstrates best practices in managing the access and dissemination of information to society.