Administrative and legal regulation of access to information about the activities of public authorities in the Russian Federation

Abstract

The subject of the study of this article is a set of legal norms of the Russian Federation and foreign states, international treaties (agreements) regulating public relations arising in the process of realization of the right to access information about the activities of state authorities and local self-government bodies. The object of the study is social relations arising in the process of realization of the constitutional right to access to information. The author examines in detail the issues of ensuring information security in the implementation of this constitutional right and problematic issues of administrative and legal regulation of access to information about the activities of public authorities. The main conclusions of this study are that the right to access information is a separate constitutional right with its own specific content. At the same time, the proper implementation of this right, taking into account the problems we have considered, is still under threat due to the imperfection of legislative regulation and law enforcement practice. In this regard, it should be proposed: to normalize the possibility of providing documents containing personal data of a third party, with preliminary depersonalization of such data; to determine the limits of the right to access information, taking into account the departure from the restrictive interpretation of the definition of "information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies" in judicial practice (in a separate resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court The Russian Federation); to revise the approach on the correlation of individual normative legal acts regulating information and administrative relations.