A percepção dos promotores de justiça sobre a comunicação pública e o direito à informação

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the communication demands that arrive at the Directorate of Communications (DCOM) of the Public Prosecution Service of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Norte (MPRN), coming from the Mossoró district, indentifying how the public prosecutors publicize their actions to the population. At the same time, the study aims to find out the perception of such prosecutors on what should the MPRN publicize or not through the DCOM; to find out how the constitutional principle of publicity, the transparency law and the right to information affect the decision of the aforementioned prosecutors to look for the DCOM and to detect factors that keep the prosecutors from sharing information with the DCOM so that such information can be publicized. This is a descriptive and exploratory study, with applied research and qualitative approach, bibliographic research (based on Law authors as well as Social Communication authors) and interviews with the prosecutors conducted by e-mail (using a semi-structured questionnaire) and in person (open questions). The data collected in the questionnaires and interviews was examined using Content Analysis techniques, anchored on Bardin (2011). As a result of the researched data, we found out that, ideally, matters related to citzens’s rights should be publicized by the DCOM, according to the prosecutors, that the participants of the research are aware of the importance of making their actions public to the population and that the inexistency of a communication policy at the MPRN reflects on the lack of a systematic approach to an adequate journalistic publicization to translate the legal terms of the Union Official Gazette to a more accesscible language, bringing more efficiency to the process due to the application of the constitutional principle of publicity, making it possible for the citzen to exercize the right to information in a more reliable way.