The Brazilian state and transparency

"This report analyzes the degree of compliance of the Brazilian government agencies with the Access to Information Act (LAI, Portuguese initials) after two and a half years of the law's effectiveness. For that, two evaluations were developed. The general, which totalized more than 450 requests for information access sent to the organs of the three powers, at the federal, state and municipal levels. The second appraisal, the judiciary, was directed to the courts, computing more thatn 260 applications, evaluating courts of the first instance, regional courts and superior tribunals. The responses were examined alighted by the method developed by professors and researchers of the Brazilian School of Public Administration and Business (EBAPE, Portuguese initials) and the Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro."--