Representative Beto Preto has until Monday (17th) to reach a settlement in impropriety case
Former Paraná Health Secretary negotiates with prosecutors, potentially avoiding conviction impacting political rights.
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16/4/2025
Pioneering Brazilian adoption app reaches milestone, fostering connections and building families.
A.dot has reached the milestone of 120 completed adoptions. The figure comes from the Court of Justice of the State of Paraná (TJPR), in the latest edition of its official report. A.dot is Brazil's first adoption app for children and adolescents, launched in May 2018. Due to bureaucratic issues, such as the notification model issued by the local courts, it is estimated that the number could be higher.
Available for iOS and Android platforms, access is restricted to those who are registered with the National Adoption and Foster Care System (SNA) of the National Council of Justice (CNJ). In this latest version of the app, verification is performed automatically, which consumed virtually all of the project's financial resources. Today, more than 12,000 users are authorized to access the platform.
In the first years of operation, the TJPR assigned teams to manually verify authorization to access profiles. Sending individual codes was a major headache at the time because, among other reasons, communication was done by email.
Between 2021 and 2022, the number of requests for initial meetings, when a prospective parent wants to meet the child in person, increased by 68%, from 138 to 232. Now in 2023, 46 trial cohabitation periods are underway.
A.dot gained national recognition after being featured on an episode of Globo Repórter.
Created as "a last chance" for profiles that deviate from the typical adoption requests (people with disabilities and sibling groups, in particular), the project faced setbacks. Even internally, there were concerns that the app might unnecessarily expose the children. This issue was completely overcome, and A.dot gained the attention of the Paraná State Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents.
Two main challenges were top of mind: adherence to the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (ECA) and the General Data Protection Law (LGPD). In these and other instances, A.dot proved not only adequate to the requirements but also successful in terms of facilitating adoptions.
The application was created in partnership between the Conscious Adoption Support Group and the Court of Justice of Paraná (TJPR). The Group also promotes training for prospective adoptive parents, which is mandatory for adopters. Currently, this training is also undergoing digitization, using the Microsoft 365 platform.
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A.dot App modernizes system; expands opportunities for children.
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Former Paraná Health Secretary negotiates with prosecutors, potentially avoiding conviction impacting political rights.
Federal Congressman for Paraná, Beto Preto (PSD), has until Monday (17th) to accept or reject a deal with the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP). The summons was ordered by the 1st Court of Public Finance of Apucarana (PR), relating to a case of administrative impropriety.
As a condition for closing the case, the MP proposes that Preto compensate for damages and pay a fine of R$ 25,000. In the lawsuit, the prosecution points to losses to public funds caused by a fraudulent bidding process in 2013, amounting to R$ 127,194.43.
Beto Preto headed the Health Department in Paraná during the pandemic. It was then that he made a name for himself in the election that took him to Brasília. He is currently on Governor Ratinho Júnior's shortlist for succession to the Iguaçu Palace. If convicted of an act of impropriety, he could have his political rights suspended.
According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, Beto Preto, then president of the Intermunicipal Consortium of the Ivaí Valley (Cisvir), contributed to a bid-rigging scheme by assisting a criminal organization led by the deceased businessman Marcelo Cernescu.
The then-president approved a bidding procedure without considering several irregularities. The scheme involved, according to the MP, shell companies and the contracting of services considered unnecessary because they should have been provided directly by the public administration.
In the initial petition, the prosecution describes illegalities in the bidding process for the contracting of an object described as "unnecessary, costly, and flagrantly illegal".
Furthermore, the elements gathered in the investigation indicate that, to achieve the illicit objectives, regardless of the contracting municipality, a similar modus operandi was employed, consisting of a joint effort between public officials and businessmen of the group to "assemble" bidding processes for the contracting of an unnecessary, costly, and flagrantly illegal object, whose acts bear clear indications of concealment.
—Initial petition of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
For the MP, the items in the bidding process do not justify hiring a private company, and it is a mere artifice "unequivocally created for the diversion of money from public coffers".
Congressman Beto Preto even had his assets frozen, along with the other defendants. Due to a change in the Administrative Improbity Law approved in 2021, the judge in the case ordered the unfreezing of the assets.
Micro-doc reveals Jenin camp reality, a symbol of Palestinian resistance in the West Bank.
Ten Palestinians were killed and one hundred injured by Israeli military forces in one of the largest operations against Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp in years.
Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank, where Jenin is located, since 1967. This represents 56 years of illegal occupation, violating international law.
Palestinians are the largest refugee group in the world. They have lived in refugee status for 75 years, both abroad and within Palestine itself, without the right to return to their regions of origin or even to move freely within their own country.
Palestinians have the right to resist the illegal occupation, the expulsion from their homes, and the chronic violence to which they are subjected.
We, writer and journalist Cassiana Pizaia, and analyst and journalist Vinícius Sgarbe, produced a micro-documentary about Jenin over a year ago, following two trips to the Middle East.
