A compreensão da aplicação da lei de acesso a informação por profissionais que atuam no setor de inteligência no estado de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The Access to Information Act, enacted on 18 November 2011 brought impacts to all public servants, boosting transparency and access to information, as essential to the strengthening of modern democracies. Thus, it is important to understand how it is understood and viewed the application of the new law on access to information in the Secretariat of the Intelligence Service of Public Safety of the State of Minas Gerais - SEDS. In order to verify how the agency has worked to ensure public access to government information without jeopardizing the legitimate efforts to ensure the security of citizens and the state, as well as the confidentiality of investigations, a literature study was done well as a field research in the Integrated Centre of Social Defense Information - CINDS. The results of the survey conducted among the SEDS servers - Secretary of Social Defense, crowded in the Integrated Centre of Social Defense Information - CINDS, made them observe that the servers are very focused on society, it being the holder of powers and being for her the whole machinery of the state has worked. There was also that despite all the efforts still lack knowledge of the law on the part of the SEDS members and is therefore advisable to conduct courses and training.