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Article: Will judicial conference thwart Internet access to court records?
- Article from:
- Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Investigative Reporters & Editors Mar/Apr 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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LEGAL CORNER
On Nov. 13, 2000, when much of the nation had its attention focused on the disputed presidential election in Florida, an organization responsible for providing policy guidance to the federal judiciary issued a request for public comment on Internet access to court documents. While acknowledging that the paper versions of case files had long been presumed to be open for public inspection and copying unless sealed by court order, the Judicial Conference of the United States announced that it was studying "the privacy and security implications of vastly wider public access" to court records stored on computerized databases (www.privacy.uscourts.gov).
As justification for ...