DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL MODEL REGULATORY ACT ON LEGAL INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION AS A DIRECTION OF LEGAL POLICY IN THE FIELD OF INFORMATION SECURITY

Abstract

Introduction: the study discusses legal information distribution as an important tool of legal policy in the field of information security, as its priority aimed at ensuring a proper level of information security of the population. A promising direction in this area is shifting a focus on the activities of constituent ent‐ities, including those aimed at updating the system of regulatory acts of the constituent entities of the Federation related to various issues of legal information distribution. Regulations of all constituent enti‐ties should be developed in accordance with the requirements for their harmonization and unification. Purpose: to justify the need for developing a model regulatory act ‘On Legal Information Distribution and Legal Education of Citizens in a Constituent Entity of the Russian Federation’ from the standpoint of legal policy, as well as to develop its structure and possible content. Methods: the dialectical method; univer‐sal research methods such as analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, structural and functional, formal and logical; special legal methods such as comparative‐legal and formal‐legal. Conclusions: we suggest that the model law ‘On Legal Information Distribution and Legal Education of Citizens in a Con‐stituent Entity of the Russian Federation’ be developed. It could become an efficient tool of legal infor‐mation distribution in constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Its structure should include: (1) an introductory part (the subject and the legal basis of regulation); (2) the main part common for all constituent entities (definitions, fundamental principles of legal information distribution and legal educa‐tion of citizens; powers of state authorities of constituent entities, those of local governments of munici‐palities and organizations subordinated to local governments; state programs of constituent entities of the Russian Federation; provisions on participation of other organizations; (3) the ‘individual’ main part (forms of legal information distribution and legal education of the population, the sources of funding); (4) the final part. The content of articles that are common for all constituent entities is also proposed.