Technological advancement, the young Brazilian democracy, the process of public
governance and accountability, as well as the constant waves of corruption, imposed a greater
demand on the part of the population so that the public accounts were evidenced by the bodies
responsible for executing and inspecting them, highlighting the theme of public transparency
in Brazilian institutional, academic and social debates. In addition, several studies show that
there is a high correlation between the levels of public transparency and the socioeconomic
indices of a locality. Whereas the social indicators of the Amazon region reveal that the State
of Pará has numerous vulnerabilities, whether of a social or even ecological nature; that the
Court of Auditors of the State of Pará assumes the institutional mission of overseeing the
transparency of the state bodies of that entity; and that the hypothesis of this research was
based on the lack of high publicity of information by these bodies, the following research
question arose: What is the current level of public transparency of the jurisdicted bodies of the
Court of Auditors of the State of Pará, according to the current legislation? This time, with the
objective of evaluating, based on the current access to information legislation, the level of
transparency (active, passive and good practices) of the bodies that are under the jurisdiction
of TCEPA. To this end, we sought to develop a research of a descriptive nature with a
qualitative and quantitative approach and application of the evaluation methodology
developed by the National Strategy to Combat Corruption and Money Laundering (ENCCLA)
in a multiple case study. As research techniques, bibliographic and documentary research
were used. The latter was based on sources of documentary evidence from the jurisdictions of
TCEPA available on the internet and accessible to citizens' request for access. The results
pointed to a scenario of critical and deficient transparency on the websites of the jurisdictional
units of TCEPA, in which, the agencies did not reach 50% of the proposed Transparency
Index. In view of this, improvements were proposed in the process of disclosing the public
information of the agencies, pointing out good management practices for units with
insufficient levels of transparency, as well as instrumentalizing the supervisory and
pedagogical performance of Pará's external control regarding access to information from the
TCEPA's jurisdictional authorities.
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