Pfhool - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Aren't they available through FOIA? (Score 2, Interesting) 145

by Pfhool on Friday August 14, 2009 @12:03PM (#29066769) Attached to: Firefox Plugin Liberates Paywalled Court Records

I don't understand why there is a paywall in the first place. I thought all government records should be available for free through a FOIA request.

They probably are, but FOIA is a long and timely process.

FOIA only applies to the executive branch.

Submission + - Open Source Court Records (recapthelaw.org)

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Pfhool

on Friday August 14, 2009 @12:20AM

Pfhool writes: "A new project out of Princeton, called RECAP, seeks to publish all federal court records, which have traditionally been behind a pay wall, despite the congressional mandate to make them freely available to all. The Firefox extension automatically uploads public documents to the Internet Archive after users pay for them, because law is the operating system of society."

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