Maine Newspapers Challenge Rule Concealing Electronic Court Records
The Penobscot County (Maine) Courthouse. (Courthouse News via Wikipedia) (CN) — A cult-like adherence to the notion of “practical obscurity” for electronic court records is dead. Or is it. In black and white, Maine’s new restriction on access to electronic court records exposes the tarnished bones of an old battle. It is the most blatant example yet of an American court walking forward on technology and in synchronous motion walking backward on transparency. A court committee itself operating in secrecy put a new rule in place in December that says nobody can look at electronic court...
Source: courthousenews.com
