The (Supreme Federal Court) failed to comply with LAI (Access to Information Law) and omitted data on trips of ministers at FAB (Brazilian Air Force) aircraft after two requests made by Sheet.
The court has not even informed how long it will leave the passenger lists of the travels.
The Supreme Court responded to the appeals presented by the report more than a month after the deadline defined by the law and did not disclose which ministers requested the displacements on official planes. The answer was only given after the court’s communication advisory was questioned about the delay.
The Ministry of Justice, author of requests for the use of STF ministers, has already reported that it will leave this information confidential for five years. The folder, however, said the decision does not apply to the trips requested by the Court itself. It is up to the Supreme to define this deadline for the flights you mobilize.
The Government (PT) became, but also to other ministers, which was uncommon before 2023. The justification is that the attacks of 8 January left the authorities at greater risk.
The FAB identifies in only the trips of the president of the Supreme Court, a position today held by the minister. Still, it has flight schedules, places of origin and destination, and passenger forecast, but does not show the list of those who accompanied the head of the court. This relationship is presented only to the trips of Federal Government ministers, among other authorities.
Flights from other magistrates are classified as “available to the Ministry of Defense” and authorized based on the breach of one that allows the defense minister to release “air transport from other national or foreign authorities” for security reasons.
In such cases listed as “available”, however, the FAB does not specify whether the flight was made by an authority of the Supreme or other body. Asked through Lai, the Supreme Court did not point out how many times the ministers used this flight category.
The information was confirmed by the Ministry of Defense through the Access Law. The folder pointed out that the STF ministers used at least 154 FAB flights from January 2023 to February 2025, more than 70% of them.
The figures refer only to flights classified as “available” by the Ministry of Defense and do not consider the trips of the President of the Court.
A part of these flights from ministers who do not occupy the presidency of the Supreme Court was requested by the Ministry of Justice. The folder states that, after April 2024, it was no longer involved in the process to lend aircraft to the magistrates.
Lawyer Bruno Morassutti of the NGO know, evaluates that there is no standard in the STF about the dissemination of flights.
“Unfortunately, there are different understandings among ministers about travel dissemination. The STF loses a lot in not giving adequate transparency for this information. It impairs the image of the institution unnecessarily in a politically sensitive moment,” he says.
Morassutti states that the Supreme is obliged to follow the access law, but not the regulation that applies to the federal executive bodies.
At the Court, who supervises the fulfillment of LAI’s requests are the controllership of the Supreme Court and the President of the Court. The TCU (Federal Court of Audit) may do the administrative inspection, but cannot apply sanctions to the ministers, it clarifies.
A Sheet He made two LAI -based requests and directed to the Supreme Court on February 14 and March 19. The routes and the list of passengers from flights made since January 2023 by the ministers were requested.
The most recent order also included questions about the degree of confidentiality applied by the Supreme to travel information and how long they will be held.
LAI -related rules, including one on access to information, say that it is necessary to specify the decision on confidentiality. The document should point out if the data will be classified as reserved, secret or ultra -secret. The deadlines to hide this information are a maximum of 5, 15 and 25 years, according to the degree chosen.
The Supreme still has a specific page on its site to list the information made confidential by the agency,
In both requests, the initial responses of the Supreme Court were identical, citing Judgment of the 2024 TCU the FAB Flight information whose disclosure may “endanger the security of institutions or high national or foreign authorities and their families.”
“It is important to highlight that all FAB aircraft use requisitions for the STF president are based on institutional security reasons,” the Supreme said on initial answers.
The Supreme Court, however, did not point out what degree of confidentiality chose for the information about the flights and ignored the questions about the trips of ministers who do not occupy the presidency.
The access law gives the public agency 5 days to respond to LAI resources. The court responded more than a month after this deadline expired for one of the reports made by the report. This only occurred hours after Sheet question STF’s communication advisory about the delay.
In both requests, the STF presidency stated that “does not request flights to other ministers,” but did not explain how aircraft are borrowed from the court members.
Barroso’s office, who elaborated the answer, also said the trips of the President of the Court “are protected by confidentiality, for institutional security reasons” and cited the TCU judgment, but again did not point out the period of confidentiality.
