On some problems and prospects for the development of public control in the local government system

This article is devoted to the analysis of modern problems and prospects for the development of public control in the system of local self-government. The subject of the research is regulatory legal acts regulating the implementation of public control at the local level and scientific works of legal scholars on this issue. The object of the study is social relations arising in the process of formation and implementation of public control. The article provides a deeper understanding of the role of public control and its importance for the development of civil society at the local level. The author examines in detail such aspects of the topic as the effectiveness of the implementation of public control over the activities of municipal bodies, issues of increasing the involvement of civil society in the development of local self-government, detailing the subject of public control, issues of improving the legal regulation of the participation of representatives of civil society in the implementation of local self-government. Special attention is paid to the development and strengthening of the position of the institution of municipal public control, increasing transparency in decision-making by local governments, increasing openness and accessibility of decisions taken at the local level. In the course of the work, systemic-structural, formal-logical, dialectical, comparative-legal, sociological research methods were used. The author's special contribution to the research of the topic is to draw the attention of the scientific community to the legal status, guarantees of implementation and strengthening of mechanisms for the participation of various social forces in the implementation of local self-government. The main conclusions of the study are the following. Firstly, according to the conducted research, municipal public control is able to perform, among other things, a stabilizing function in our society, suppressing the spread of misinformation in society. Secondly, according to established law enforcement practice, in the context of the current reform of local self-government and the emerging trend of liquidation of local self-government at the settlement level, the role of the village headman increases annually. In this regard, it seems advisable to include the village head among the subjects of public control. The novelty of the research is the identification of current problems and the introduction of a number of proposals for correction.