Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases

Post by giantg2 » Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 8:44 PM UTC

distances wrote: post #269

ghaff wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You and others are essentially arguing that we should put artificial barriers in place for accessing information that is public as a matter of law. Arguably there is information that's public today only because the circumstances at the time when that decision was made were different. But the solution would be to make less information public if it's a problem. Not to tell people they can only access this information w…

I disagree. That is an excellent throttling mechanism. Keeps records open but preserves a modicum of privacy. It's another topic if court records should be public at all, but I gather that's a pretty integral element of US judicial system.

Post by giantg2 » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 12:35 AM UTC

chaps wrote: post #272

giantg2 wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The documents being released are currently publicly available. It looks like records of minors either don't show up, or don't show details. It also looks like expunged convictions do not have the case showing up. FOIA doesn't apply for two reasons. One is like you say - many court documents are considered privileged and not subject to FOIA (which I agree has many issues around things like complaints). The other is th…

Access to justice and information about justice shouldn't be gatekept through money. I understand where you're going with it, but it's very close to the same reasoning used to justify ex[tp]ensive bail -- it only fucks the poor.

Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 1:06 AM UTC

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