Guidelines on the access to information law and its regulating decree set standards for the websites of public institutions related to the concept “proactive transparency”. The research seeks to identify the existence of these standards in federal public universities websites and verify the levels of active
transparency in order to analysis the degree of involvement from those universities with the implementation of the law. A survey was carried out in websites of ten universities from the South-Eastern and the Center-West states, complemented by documentary research. The results show an unequal performance
regarding the use of active transparency guidelines in those universities.