Court orders the Municipality of São Luís to regularize food programs The municipality will have 60 days to present an administrative adequacy plan and a budgetary-financial schedule to regularize the activities of each program. The document must contain goals, distribution logistics and a schedule of necessary bids. In addition, the Municipality of São Luís must pay compensation of R$300,000 for collective moral damage, according to the sentence of judge Douglas de Melo Martins, head of the Diffuse and Collective Interests Court of São Luís. ?Download the g1 app to see MA news in real time and for free According to the decision, the magistrate concluded that the programs are inactive or run irregularly, a situation that motivated the Action Public Civil with a request for urgent protection filed by the Public Prosecutor's Office against the municipal management. The sentence is also based on Federal Law No. 11,346/2006, which establishes adequate nutrition as a fundamental human right and imposes on public authorities the duty to implement and maintain food security policies for the population. What do those mentioned say? The municipal management denied discontinuing the programs and justified the stoppage of milk supply due to breach of contract by the responsible company, maintaining that the other actions are carried out regularly. The municipality also informed that two of the programs mentioned in the action would be in operation, two others depend on a deadline for regularization and one of them, the Community Kitchen Program, is subject to compliance with a sentence in another process. In relation to this program, the request was terminated without resolution of the merits. However, during the investigation of the process, it was found that the Food Acquisition Program (Alimenta Brasil) was paralyzed in the election year of 2024. The Milk at Home Program has been paralyzed since 2022. Although the municipality has maintained the regularity of the Peixe na Mesa Program (Mesa Farta) and the Food and Nutritional Education Program, the action pointed out that the activities are carried out only on an occasional basis.