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Court Records Should Be Free

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Re: Court Records Should Be Free

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Post by Grazester »

panny wrote: post #2

>The bill would replace the aging PACER and CM/ECF systems with a modern, unified platform designed to improve public access, strengthen cybersecurity, and reduce long-term costs. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

Isn't the replacement for CM/ECF, ACMS?

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Post by cdolan »

courtlistener and the Recap program fill a vital niche at the moment.

Recap takes any PACER document you purchase and automatically adds it to CourtListener for others to see/download.

Hopefully it will become obsolete soon!

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Post by anon373839 »

I actually approve of the something closer to the status quo here. Court filings contain a lot of sensitive information about the litigants.

It is one thing for the records to be publicly available, as they must be. It is a very different thing for every speck of material in them to be instantly available to anyone, anywhere, worldwide, for any purpose.

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Post by nonethewiser »

anon373839 wrote: post #8

I actually approve of the something closer to the status quo here. Court filings contain a lot of sensitive information about the litigants. It is one thing for the records to be publicly available, as they must be. It is a very different thing for every speck of material in them to be instantly available to anyone, anywhere, worldwide, for any purpose.

Then why do you think they should be public?

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Post by monooso »

anon373839 wrote: post #8

I actually approve of the something closer to the status quo here. Court filings contain a lot of sensitive information about the litigants. It is one thing for the records to be publicly available, as they must be. It is a very different thing for every speck of material in them to be instantly available to anyone, anywhere, worldwide, for any purpose.

Isn't that basically the same as saying court filings should be available, but not to poor people?
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