Harlan Yu of the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) has posted Assessing PACER’s Access Barriers, on the CITP blog Freedom to Tinker.
Mr. Yu’s post assesses the preliminary report of a study of PACER by the U.S. federal courts, and described in the new issue of Third Branch.
While that report indicates high user satisfaction with PACER, Mr. Yu cites evidence that the PACER user community is unnecessarily small, due to access obstacles such as fees and accepted payment methods.
Mr. Yu urges the federal courts to remove these barriers to access and to explore alternative means of administering and funding PACER, as Stephen Schultze recommended earlier this year.
Tags: CITP, Free access to law, Freedom to Tinker, Harlan Yu, J. Rich Leonard, PACER, Public access to court records, Public access to legal information, Stephen Schultze
August 18, 2010 at 6:07 pm |
Is PACER Providing Sufficient Public Access to Federal Court Documents? http://bit.ly/bfRqho @ericlipman comments on @harlanyu ‘s post
August 20, 2010 at 1:27 am |
On What People Don’t Know They Want from PACER , by @NancyScola | @techpresident http://j.mp/decTPN citing @harlanyu ‘s post