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RECAP: Turning PACER Around

Meet  RECAP (http://recapthelaw.org) – Be impressed.  Very impressed. PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) documents sit behind a pay-wall; however, these are public record documents, so...

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A Note on RECAP’s Commitment to Privacy

Posted on the RECAP site today: A Note on RECAP’s Commitment to Privacy We’ve gotten our first official reaction from the judiciary, in the form of a statement on the New Mexico Bankruptcy court’s...

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Geeks seek to make the law Googleable; RECAP in WSJ

Buried on page W13 of today’s Wall Street Journal  is a must-read piece by Katherine Mangu-Ward, “Transparency Chic.” As the author makes clear: . . . no aspect of government remains more locked down...

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US Courts & RECAP – the Latest News

Paul Alan Levy on the Consumer Law and Policy blog writes: “I got a call this afternoon from Michel Ishakian, the Deputy Chief for IT Policy and Budget at the Administrative Office of the United States...

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RECAP: cracking open US courtrooms

Any mention of PACER or RECAP will get our attention.   Just this week, RECAP made the news across the pond.  “RECAP: cracking open US courtrooms:  Access to US legal files is being transformed by a...

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Public Means Online

Today’s Washington Post features an editorial supporting the new Public Online Information Act, H.R. 4858. [Rep. Steve Israel, D-NY] “has introduced the Public Online Information Act (POIA), a sensible...

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More than One Document a Minute

The headline from the Internet Archive posting reads: “Millions of documents from over 350k federal court cases now freely available.” The millions of documents are all from PACER by way of the RECAP...

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What we don’t know….RECAP/Pacer Survey

At the NOCALL Spring Institute in March, I demonstrated the RECAP plug-in.  After the presentation, one attendee stopped by and suggested that not enough librarians are using the plug-in because they...

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Searching through RECAP

[Post updated -- see note at bottom] The folks at the CITP have just improved RECAP. How? They have now added search functionality. By going to Archive.recapthelaw.org, you can search all the documents...

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