Human Rights Alert (NGO)

Joseph Zernik, PhD

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July 28, 2015
Judge Michael Spitzer
Director, Administration of Courts
By email: Pniyot@court.gov.il
RE: Request for response regarding design, implementation, and operation of IT systems of the
Israeli courts.
Your response within 45 days is kindly requested.
Dear Judge Spitzer:
As part of follow up, midway through the 4-year cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of
Human Rights in Israel by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), I herein request your response, as
Director of the Administration of Courts, regarding: Lack of integrity in the electronic record
systems of the Supreme Court, the district courts, and detainees courts in Israel. [i] Such note was
part of the 2013 HRC UPR Professional Staff Report, which incorporated by reference the Human
Rights Alert (HRA NGO) submission for the UPR of the State of Israel. (Attached: HRA NGO Short
Submission [ii] and Appendix I [iii])
More recently, a paper was accepted for publication and presentation by the European Conference on
e-Government, titled: Fraudulent, new IT systems of the Israeli courts announced regime change?
(Attached [iv]). The conference included a special channel for e-Justice, and the paper was accepted
following anonymous, international, academic peer review and an additional procedure (probably due
to its unusual title), involving the keynote speakers of the conference internationally acclaimed,
academic experts in the field of IT systems.
In case you find validity in any of the failures of IT systems of the Israeli courts, which are
documented in the attached reports, please also indicate, what corrective measures are intended, if
any.
The attached reports only address the failures, which were discovered and documented through
system analysis and data mining. The effect of such IT systems on the administration of justice in
individual cases has been separately studied through a series of court cases, in preparation for the
next UPR. The next HRA NGO UPR submission would be forwarded for your comments at a future
date, prior to its submission to the HRC.
About the writer:
Dr Zernik's reports in the area of IT systems and Human Rights were incorporated into Universal Periodic
Review reports of the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding:
The United States (2010), with the note: Corruption of the courts and the legal profession and
discrimination by law enforcement in California;
The State of Israel (2013) with the note: Lack of integrity in the electronic records of the supreme court,
the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel, and
The United States (2015) with the note: HRA NGO recommended restoring the integrity of the IT
systems of the courts, under accountability to the Congress, with the goal of making such systems as
transparent as possible to the public at large.
A textbook on "Machine Learning" found Dr Zernik's application of data-mining in Human Rights research
among "Notable uses", and summarized it as follows: [v]
Data mining of government records - particularly records of the justice system (i.e., courts, prisons) enables the discovery of systemic human rights violations in connection to generation and publication of
invalid or fraudulent legal records by various government agencies. [vi,vii]

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Surely, you would recognize the significance of the matter, and I look forward to receiving your
response.
Truly,
Joseph Zernik, PhD
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i. 2013-01-01 UN Human Rights Council UPR Professional Staff Report, including the note "Lack of integrity
in the electronic records of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel" (page
4, paragraph 25)
http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G12/180/12/PDF/G1218012.pdf?OpenElement
ii. 2012-06-04 Human Right Alert's Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, of
the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel
http://www.scribd.com/doc/92826212/
iii. 2012-05-10 Human Right Alert's Appendix I to Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel: Integrity, or
lack thereof, in the electronic record systems in the courts of the State of Israel
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8Aa2xQGbmk5cjNxd2szX05oMkU
iv. 2015-06-18 Zernik, J., Fraudulent New IT Systems of the Israeli Courts Unannounced Regime Change?
Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on e-Government, University of Portsmouth, UK, pp 331340, 2015.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/250726544/
v. Wiki Nerds, "Machine Learning", Google books
http://books.google.co.il/books?
id=4ZayAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
vi. Joseph Zernik. "Design and Operation of the Electronic Record Systems of the US Courts are Linked to
Failing Banking Regulation" Data Analytics, 2012
http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=data_analytics_2012_3_50_60059
vii. Joseph Zernik, "Integrity, or Lack Thereof, of the Electronic Record Systems of the Courts of the State of
Israel", Data Analytics, 2012
http://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=data_analytics_2012_2_10_60063

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