Legal Protection Of Citizen’s Right To Know In Emergencies

Maximum extent in order to timely and effective response in emergencies, reassuring maintenance, maintenance of social stability must be adequate and reasonable protection of citizen’s right to information in emergencies.Emergencies, how to define the scope of the citizen’s right to know what information must be released is the focus of the study.Due to the formation of long-standing administrative practice of the government a lot of information control is very strict,if the information error or publishing false information likely to lead to greater social panic,Especially in the face of unexpected events.And in emergencies, the government is often the focus of all transfer to respond to emergencies, to prevent the situation from proliferation and rescue remedy up, often overlook the protection of citizens’ right to know. Citizens the right to know as a citizen monitoring the government restricting an important guarantee of the public authority, is one of the fundamental rights of citizens indispensable.Citizens to be aware of the government administration, to keep abreast of important national decision-making, the government affairs and community and universal civil rights and interests are closely related to major events,through the open government information, access to government-related information.In order to exercise more effective supervision of the constitution gives citizens the right to criticize the Government. Citizens living in emergencies, be aware of an event of the development situation and the Government response is related to citizens’ personal and property safety critical.This shows that the right to know not only public rights of citizens checks and balances, supervision, and effective means to criticize the Government, is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, establish an important foundation of the government and the public trust.Must establish a systematic, institutionalized system of legal protection of the citizen’s right to know in emergencies.First, legislation should improve the legal protection of the citizen’s right to know emergency start,established in the legal aspects of the citizens the right to know the position clear in emergencies the citizens right to know the specific content and scope.Second, we must establish and perfect the system of protection of the citizens of the implementation process right to know.Also compatible with the citizen’s right to know the legal protection system, open government information and emergencies must be established to deal with the legal system,coordination between administrative efficiency and protection of the rights, complete supervision of relief mechanism.The formation of a set of scientific and efficient response to emergencies in the citizen’s right to know in the legal system security system.Thus the maximum extent possible to protect citizens’ right to know in which emergencies.