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FC: In New Jersey, privacy fears trump access to government records
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:16:55 -0400
http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1024078905402&t=LawArticle New Jersey High Court Retreats From Posting Records on Web Budgetary concerns and privacy issues are setting back a plan that once seemed so promising Six years ago, the New Jersey Supreme Court seemed close to adopting a recommendation by one of its committees to post almost every court record on the Internet, available to anyone with a modem and a computer. Now, however, in light of budgetary concerns and privacy issues, the judiciary appears to be stepping back from that plan. Toni McLaughlin, assistant director for Internet services for New Jersey's Administrative Office of the Courts, says that for the time being, complete Internet access to court documents will not be available. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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