OAB-SP Submits Digital Ethics Code for STF Ministers, Seeking Algorithm Transparency and Asset Disclosures

Overview

• OAB-SP delivered the proposal to STF president Edson Fachin as a complement to a conduct code sent in January, drawing on international judicial-ethics and tech-governance standards.
• The draft bars comments on pending cases, forbids disclosure of internal or confidential information, urges heightened prudence online, and requires official, auditable channels for institutional communications.
• It calls for objective, pre-set criteria in digital case distribution with permanently auditable logs to increase oversight of the tribunal’s allocation algorithm.
• Each minister would keep a public, updated declaration of financial interests, including spouses and first-degree relatives, and would be impeded from cases linked to those interests.
• The text sets minimum security requirements for devices accessing STF systems and immediate incident reporting, and OAB-SP says some measures may advance via CNJ or STF resolutions while broader impediment rules are likely to be pursued in Congress in the coming weeks.