Providing public information as a manifestation of social control procedure for public procurement

The access to public knowledge, which is the result of the common right to information, is a fundamental issue of modern times. It provides interested parties with information about public affairs. It creates a place for communication and joint determination of issues that are relevant to society as a whole. On this level, it is an institution of social control, which includes the sphere of public procurement. This paper is devoted to determining legally guaranteed forms and methods of its implementation (realization of access to public information, and thus the control process).

Discrimination in access to public information and the visibility of websites administration

Access to public information is a right that on the basis of the Constitution provides each citizen, and on the basis of the Law on Access to Information publicznej – to everyone irrespective of their citizenship by him. Both the Law on Access to Public Information and its accompanying regulation indicate what conditions must meet the website of the public authority, that it can be considered as a Public Information Bulletin. The parties are often not adapted to the needs of people with disabilities or digitally excluded. It seems that in this case we can speak of a restriction of their right to access to public information. To overcome the barriers that previously existed for access to public information of persons with disabilities, established a series of regulations aimed at ensuring web accessibility for people with disabilities. At the same time it seems that the measures taken are not sufficient or are not sufficiently used and do not provide full accessibility of public administration websites visually impaired and partially sighted.

Obtaining judgments of common and administrative courts under the law on access to public information

The purpose of this article is to examine, whether the amendment to the law on access to public information, dated on November 7 th , 2014, directly recognizing the content of judgments for public information, is in accordance with the existing line of case law and views of doctrine. At the same time the article is an invitation to discussion under what circumstances and in what form a refusal to provide the court judgment is allowed, especially for the sake of protection of privacy of individuals or in the case of request for processed information. This research is conducted with the use of legal dogmatic and descriptive method. The key assumption of this article is to state that the content of judgments is an example of simple (unprocessed) public information. Access to public information is not an absolute right, ergo it is subject to restrictions, among which the Author devotes special attention to the protection of privacy. Finally, it should be noted that in some cases, even anonymization of content of the judgment or refusal to make it available may in fact make the protection of privacy only illusory. It is therefore desirable to clarify by the legislator or case law the procedure for access to content of court judgments.