Agent skill · jamditis
brazil-records-requests
Public records requests under Brazil's Access to Information Law (LAI). Use for Fala.BR filings, e-SIC, and CGU/CMRI appeals.
What it needs
About 10k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Brazilian public records requests (LAI) Brazil's Access to Information Law, Lei 12.527/2011, universally called the LAI, is one of the stronger transparency statutes in Latin America and one of the most under-used by reporters. Most denials are not legal defeats. They are drafting failures that a differently worded request would have avoided. This skill covers the full cycle: choosing the body, drafting, filing, tracking, and the four-level appeal chain. When to use Drafting a request to any Brazilian government body Deciding which body and which portal actually holds the records Diagnosing a denial and deciding whether to appeal or refile Writing an appeal at any of the four levels Planning the timeline of an investigation that depends on records Training reporters on LAI practice Do not use for US records requests, use foia-requests Court case data, which in Brazil is mostly public through other channels (DataJud, e-SAJ, PJe) and rarely needs a records request Data already published under transparência ativa (see "Check first" below) Language Respond in the language the reporter writes in. Draft anything addressed to a Brazilian public body — the request itself, appeals, follow-ups — in Portuguese, whatever language the conversation is in. Portuguese is not a validity requirement: LAI art. 10 and Decree 7.724/2012 art. 12 require the requester's identification and a description of the information, and neither mandates a language or authorizes denial for using another one. It is a practical one. The clerk reading the request works in Portuguese, and a request that is not understood gets bounced as generic under Decree 7.724, art. 13, I — which costs the full 20 days and a refile. Where the receiving body publishes its own filing rules, check them; subnational practice varies. Check first: is a request even necessary? Art. 8 of the LAI obliges agencies to publish core categories of information on their own initiative. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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