GPO & Federal Judiciary Announce Pilot Program of Enhanced Public Access To Federal Court Opinions
Submitted by jajacobs on Wed, 2011-05-04 06:12.
GPO & Federal Judiciary Enhance Public Access To Federal Court Opinions Government Printing Office, Press Release, May 4, 2011 No. 11-23.
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Federal Judiciary are launching a one- year pilot program providing free public access to court opinions through GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys). The joint project was approved by the Judicial Conference of the United States and GPO's Congressional oversight committee, the Joint Committee on Printing. When fully implemented, the pilot will include up to 42 courts. The Judiciary continually has sought ways to enhance public access to court opinions. Free access to opinions in all Federal courts is currently available via the Judiciary's Public Access to Court Electronic Records service (PACER). Building on that success, staff from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts met with GPO management to explore making opinions available through FDsys, which can provide the public with a robust search engine that can search common threads across opinions and courts. The public will be able to access court opinions in the next several months through GPO's Federal Digital System: www.fdsys.gov
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Format matters for Fed court opinions
Ari Hershowitz at the Tabulaw blog has a good piece entitled "Losing Data in PDF: All the King's Sources" in which he describes clearly and succinctly why format matters. Ari describes in some detail about data loss from publishing court opinions in (untagged) pdf. We wholeheartedly agree that govt information needs to adhere to clear and open standards and be published in a tagged and structured format (like XML).
Work toward permanent public access!
[NOTE: Bernadine Abbott Hoduski asked me to post this comment for her]
"It took a lot of years and a lot of determined docs people to get here. Lets work for permanent access to most of the courts info and free access to the public. Bernadine"
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