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  "article_content": "\u003cdiv class=\"entry\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis story was written by Paulo Talarico and Priscila Pacheco. It is published here through a content partnership between Global Voices and Ag\u00eancia Mural.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"http://www.diadema.sp.gov.br/\"\u003ewebsite of the City Hall\u003c/a\u003e of Diadema\u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.diadema.sp.gov.br/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e,\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u00a0\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ea city in the Greater S\u00e3o Paulo\u0027s area, \u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e appears to have transparency over public data. But that\u0027s just the appearance.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhen accessing the page, a notice shows up for residents to participate in the discussion on the municipality\u0027s guiding plan. On the government tab or near the footer you can find the Transparency Portal, an online tool for increasing fiscal transparency of Brazil\u0027s federal government.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThere you can find \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLAI\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (Access to Information Law) page \u2014 a law created in 2011, which regulates the access of Brazilian citizens to public information. Ag\u00eancia Mural filed a request on August 9 for data on the implementation of the management plan of Diadema\u0027s Mayor Lauro Michels\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, reelected in 2017. The system was scheduled to respond by August 29. Almost three months later, no response.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDiadema\u0027s lack of transparency is not an isolated case and is the reality for residents of almost half of S\u00e3o Paulo\u0027s \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regi%C3%A3o_Metropolitana_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003emetropolitan region\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Ag\u00eancia Mural requested data on the target plans of all 39 municipalities in Greater S\u00e3o Paulo \u2014 17 ignored the requests.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe legislation stipulates that all public agencies in Brazil are obliged to disclose information when requested to do so by any resident (except when the information is classified as secret). But the law is frequently breached by municipalities. The situation is particularly bad in populous regions such as Greater S\u00e3o Paulo, where 21 million inhabitants (10 percent of Brazil\u0027s\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u00a0population) live.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn some cases, even the pages to file requests for information were not found, and in others there was no option to appeal if the request were not answered. Both are obligations of municipal governments according to LAI\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTransparency promised \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eClaiming to be transparent is a hallmark of candidates in Brazilian elections, but that changes when politicians take power.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhen he ran for mayor in 2016, Marcus Melo, the mayor of Mogi das Cruzes, made a point of \u003ca href=\"http://divulgacandcontas.tse.jus.br/divulga/rest/v1/candidatura/buscar/arquivo/1455563\"\u003enoting\u003c/a\u003e in his government plan that he would \u201cexpand the tools of transparency and public administration social control\u201d. Three years later, this is not the reality\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWith 400 thousand inhabitants and a budget of BRL 1.6 billion (around 300 US dollars) per year, the municipality still lacks an easily accessible \u003ca href=\"http://www.mogidascruzes.sp.gov.br/\"\u003epage\u003c/a\u003e. Since we couldn\u0027t find the e-SIC (the form where citizens can file for requests online), we sent a request by letter. The municipality contacted us and said it needed a personal document and a phone number to file it.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe document was sent on August 15. Four days later it was filed. Three months passed and no response was received. There is no way to appeal.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eJamile Santana, 31, co-founder of the website \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://paineljornalismo.com/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePainel Jornalismo\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, also had problems accessing public information. Jamile says she has filed complaints with the Public Prosecutor against Mogi das Cruzes and Guararema, a neighbouring municipality.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn the legal action against Mogi, she highlighted the obstacles she encountered in the e-SIC, including the lack of an option to make an appeal when filing, on June 12, a request for access to the list of debtors enrolled in the municipality\u0027s active debt.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe local government missed the 20-day deadline and on July 3, without requesting an extension, informed Jamile that the Transparency Portal was not the right approach. It stated that the request should be made in writing and in person using the General Protocol at the site of attendance. The action, however, was shelved by the Attorney General\u0027s Office.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn Guararema, the problem brought before the Public Prosecutor\u0027s Office was that an appeal had been evaluated by the same person who had rejected the application before. Jamile had sent a request regarding ISS (tax on services) by email and received an incomplete reply from the head of the financial section.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u201cI asked him, where do I enter an appeal? I submitted the arguments there, and it was the same manager who had attended to me the first time,\u201d she said. According to \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.acessoainformacao.gov.br/assuntos/conheca-seu-direito/a-lei-de-acesso-a-informacao/mapa-da-lai\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eArticle 15\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e of the LAI, the appeal must be evaluated by someone of a higher rank.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe lack of compliance with the LAI in Mogi das Cruzes was identified by the State Court of Auditors. In his August 2019 \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www2.tce.sp.gov.br/arqs_juri/pdf/732824.pdf\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eassessment\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, Councilor Sidney Beraldo listed five types of failures. \u201cAlthough a citizen information system has been created, there is no municipal legislation dealing with access to information,\u201d he said. Nevertheless, the Court recommended approving the accounts audited\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cb\u003eLittle progress\u00a0\u00a0\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis lack of transparency is similar to that found by Agencia Mural in 2018, when we \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mural.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2018/05/14/mais-de-20-cidades-da-grande-sao-paulo-dificultam-acesso-a-informacao-publica/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eidentified\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e at least 20 municipalities that hamper access to public information. At the time, most of them had no apparent e-SIC.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHowever, that time, we chose to send the requests by letter to the municipalities in which we did not find a system or where there was a problem that prevented the process. Thirteen letters were sent by post.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOf these, three cities responded to the request: Suzano, which sent a reply; Biritiba Mirim, which rejected the request, and Mogi, cited above. The other nine municipalities simply ignored the requests. The problems of transparency go beyond the municipalities of Greater S\u00e3o Paulo.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn May, the NGO Article 19 released a \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://artigo19.org/?p=16167\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ereport\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e with the results of an evaluation of the e-SICs of the 26 states and the Federal District, the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), the Senate, the House of Deputies, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) and the Superior Court of Justice (STJ).\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNo institution achieved 100 percent of the defined criteria, with the CGU having the highest score, 93 percent, followed by the states of Alagoas and Maranh\u00e3o, both with 80 percent. In Roraima it was not possible even to register, because the system was offline\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy are we not fulfilling the law?\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBut what leads a municipality to not comply with a law which has been in force for seven years? We asked Fabiano Ang\u00e9lico, an expert in public transparency.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOne of the points is that small municipalities may have difficulty establishing the necessary structure. Technology and a team are needed to meet the demand.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHowever, municipalities with budgets of almost BRL 3 billion per year (around 580 million US dollars), like Barueri, also ignored requests made by Ag\u00eancia Mural. Governed for the fifth time by Rubens Furlan, his office did not answer questions about the LAI.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSometimes managers also lack interest in the topic. \u201cPolitical will is something created. It\u0027s the people, NGOs, local journalists, who get the municipality to act,\u201d Ang\u00e9lico says.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFor him, the more requests, the more chances of the law being used effectively. \u201cIt is very clear that states and municipalities have no more excuses,\u201d he says.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHe explains that there are three ways to demand improvements in information access. The first is to mobilize public opinion, to take the issue to the city council for councillors to denounce the situation, or to media outlets working in the city. The second way is public prosecution and, finally, the State Audit Court.\u00a0\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEspecially in the case of journalists, it is recommended to act together, particularly in smaller municipalities, for security reasons. \u201cThe Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) filing a complaint about non-compliance, for example, may have more weight with the public prosecution service,\u201d Ang\u00e9lico said\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e",
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  "text": "Lack of transparency in government isn't unexpected.  No one likes to be under scrutiny,  especially not those with power.    Transparency laws exist because governments will try their best to hide and obfuscate their own mistakes and misdeeds,  but it takes more than a paper law to give them force.  It takes steady pressure from the people.    I'm not at all surprised by this news.",
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    "article_title": "Even with a law, São Paulo's municipalities are not fulfilling citizens’ right of access to information",
    "article_date": "16 April 2020",
    "article_author": "Agência Mural",
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    "article_content": "<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This story was written by Paulo Talarico and Priscila Pacheco. It is published here through a content partnership between Global Voices and Agência Mural.</span></i></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"http://www.diadema.sp.gov.br/\">website of the City Hall</a> of Diadema</span><a href=\"http://www.diadema.sp.gov.br/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,</span></a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a city in the Greater São Paulo's area, </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> appears to have transparency over public data. But that's just the appearance.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When accessing the page, a notice shows up for residents to participate in the discussion on the municipality's guiding plan. On the government tab or near the footer you can find the Transparency Portal, an online tool for increasing fiscal transparency of Brazil's federal government.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There you can find </span><a href=\"http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LAI</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Access to Information Law) page — a law created in 2011, which regulates the access of Brazilian citizens to public information. Agência Mural filed a request on August 9 for data on the implementation of the management plan of Diadema's Mayor Lauro Michels</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, reelected in 2017. The system was scheduled to respond by August 29. Almost three months later, no response. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diadema's lack of transparency is not an isolated case and is the reality for residents of almost half of São Paulo's </span><a href=\"https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regi%C3%A3o_Metropolitana_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">metropolitan region</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Agência Mural requested data on the target plans of all 39 municipalities in Greater São Paulo — 17 ignored the requests. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The legislation stipulates that all public agencies in Brazil are obliged to disclose information when requested to do so by any resident (except when the information is classified as secret). But the law is frequently breached by municipalities. The situation is particularly bad in populous regions such as Greater São Paulo, where 21 million inhabitants (10 percent of Brazil's</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> population) live.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In some cases, even the pages to file requests for information were not found, and in others there was no option to appeal if the request were not answered. Both are obligations of municipal governments according to LAI</span>.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>Transparency promised </strong></h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claiming to be transparent is a hallmark of candidates in Brazilian elections, but that changes when politicians take power. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he ran for mayor in 2016, Marcus Melo, the mayor of Mogi das Cruzes, made a point of <a href=\"http://divulgacandcontas.tse.jus.br/divulga/rest/v1/candidatura/buscar/arquivo/1455563\">noting</a> in his government plan that he would “expand the tools of transparency and public administration social control”. Three years later, this is not the reality</span>.</p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With 400 thousand inhabitants and a budget of BRL 1.6 billion (around 300 US dollars) per year, the municipality still lacks an easily accessible <a href=\"http://www.mogidascruzes.sp.gov.br/\">page</a>. Since we couldn't find the e-SIC (the form where citizens can file for requests online), we sent a request by letter. The municipality contacted us and said it needed a personal document and a phone number to file it.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The document was sent on August 15. Four days later it was filed. Three months passed and no response was received. There is no way to appeal. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jamile Santana, 31, co-founder of the website </span><a href=\"https://paineljornalismo.com/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Painel Jornalismo</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, also had problems accessing public information. Jamile says she has filed complaints with the Public Prosecutor against Mogi das Cruzes and Guararema, a neighbouring municipality. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the legal action against Mogi, she highlighted the obstacles she encountered in the e-SIC, including the lack of an option to make an appeal when filing, on June 12, a request for access to the list of debtors enrolled in the municipality's active debt. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The local government missed the 20-day deadline and on July 3, without requesting an extension, informed Jamile that the Transparency Portal was not the right approach. It stated that the request should be made in writing and in person using the General Protocol at the site of attendance. The action, however, was shelved by the Attorney General's Office. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Guararema, the problem brought before the Public Prosecutor's Office was that an appeal had been evaluated by the same person who had rejected the application before. Jamile had sent a request regarding ISS (tax on services) by email and received an incomplete reply from the head of the financial section. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I asked him, where do I enter an appeal? I submitted the arguments there, and it was the same manager who had attended to me the first time,” she said. According to </span><a href=\"http://www.acessoainformacao.gov.br/assuntos/conheca-seu-direito/a-lei-de-acesso-a-informacao/mapa-da-lai\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article 15</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the LAI, the appeal must be evaluated by someone of a higher rank.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lack of compliance with the LAI in Mogi das Cruzes was identified by the State Court of Auditors. In his August 2019 </span><a href=\"http://www2.tce.sp.gov.br/arqs_juri/pdf/732824.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assessment</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Councilor Sidney Beraldo listed five types of failures. “Although a citizen information system has been created, there is no municipal legislation dealing with access to information,” he said. Nevertheless, the Court recommended approving the accounts audited</span>.</p>\n<h3><b>Little progress  </b></h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This lack of transparency is similar to that found by Agencia Mural in 2018, when we </span><a href=\"https://mural.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2018/05/14/mais-de-20-cidades-da-grande-sao-paulo-dificultam-acesso-a-informacao-publica/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">identified</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at least 20 municipalities that hamper access to public information. At the time, most of them had no apparent e-SIC. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, that time, we chose to send the requests by letter to the municipalities in which we did not find a system or where there was a problem that prevented the process. Thirteen letters were sent by post. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of these, three cities responded to the request: Suzano, which sent a reply; Biritiba Mirim, which rejected the request, and Mogi, cited above. The other nine municipalities simply ignored the requests. The problems of transparency go beyond the municipalities of Greater São Paulo. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In May, the NGO Article 19 released a </span><a href=\"https://artigo19.org/?p=16167\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">report</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the results of an evaluation of the e-SICs of the 26 states and the Federal District, the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), the Senate, the House of Deputies, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) and the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No institution achieved 100 percent of the defined criteria, with the CGU having the highest score, 93 percent, followed by the states of Alagoas and Maranhão, both with 80 percent. In Roraima it was not possible even to register, because the system was offline</span>.</p>\n<h3><strong>Why are we not fulfilling the law?</strong></h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what leads a municipality to not comply with a law which has been in force for seven years? We asked Fabiano Angélico, an expert in public transparency. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the points is that small municipalities may have difficulty establishing the necessary structure. Technology and a team are needed to meet the demand. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, municipalities with budgets of almost BRL 3 billion per year (around 580 million US dollars), like Barueri, also ignored requests made by Agência Mural. Governed for the fifth time by Rubens Furlan, his office did not answer questions about the LAI.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes managers also lack interest in the topic. “Political will is something created. It's the people, NGOs, local journalists, who get the municipality to act,” Angélico says.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For him, the more requests, the more chances of the law being used effectively. “It is very clear that states and municipalities have no more excuses,” he says.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He explains that there are three ways to demand improvements in information access. The first is to mobilize public opinion, to take the issue to the city council for councillors to denounce the situation, or to media outlets working in the city. The second way is public prosecution and, finally, the State Audit Court. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Especially in the case of journalists, it is recommended to act together, particularly in smaller municipalities, for security reasons. “The Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) filing a complaint about non-compliance, for example, may have more weight with the public prosecution service,” Angélico said</span>.</p>\n</div>",
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    "llm_assisted_collection": true,
    "mapping_notes": [
      {
        "label_original": "none",
        "label_normalized": "none",
        "labels_rhetoric": [],
        "techniques": [],
        "mapping_confidence": "high",
        "notes": "Explicit non-fallacious control label in the public CoCoLoFa release."
      }
    ]
  }
}