Our Country Citizen Right To Know Legal Protection

The right to know already became one of citizen important basic rights in the modern government by law society, is the citizen many basic right foundations and the core. The citizen right to know realizes mainly through grasps the huge information content the Administrative organ initiative or the passive gain. The government information public core value lies in safeguards citizen's right to know, carries out right which the people are master of own affairs, thus realizes citizen's right to know, the participation right, the expression power, the supervisory authority. on April 5, 2007, State Council announced "People's Republic of China Administration Information Public Rule" (hereafter refers to as "Rule") becomes effective from May 1, 2008. "Rule" issued and executed enables the administrative information to have nationwidely publicly has compared the top digit step the legal basis, to safeguard citizen individual and organization's right to know, the standard government information public behavior, the inspector general Governmental agency strict administration according to law has provided the legal basis. This article elaborated the right to know historical development, has analyzed the right to know rationale, the right attribute and the safeguard right to know practical significance, Has analyzed the right to know protection and the administrative information public relations, and unified "Rule" has analyzed our country right to know protection present situation, And to be how coordinated with "Security Law" and "File Law" the relations, have analyzed the administrative proceedings the question which faces to the administrative information public law relief, as well as consummation administration information public suggestion.