January 19, 2022 - A district court judge in Virginia on Friday found Virginia’s online civil court system violated First Amendment rights of the press and public because of the system’s restricted access to newly filed civil complaints. The Officer of the Court Remote Access (OCRA) system makes civil filings available to attorneys through a per-court subscription fee. Authorized users can access filings from the courts they are subscribed to. The public and news outlets cannot use OCRA. Instead, non-attorneys need to physically go to the courts to access the documents. Approximately 90 of the 120 courts in Virginia use OCRA. Courthouse News Services (CNS) filed the lawsuit against Karl R. Hade, executive sec...
July 10, 2021 - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday vetoed a wide-ranging bill that would have limited public access to certain government records. ...
July 09, 2021 - Hundreds of thousands of Michiganders who are looking for work could be facing new challenges in their job hunt. Set to start in Jul...
February 16, 2021 - A cult-like adherence to the notion of “practical obscurity” for electronic court records is dead. Or is it. In black an...
February 03, 2021 - The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) has asked a judge in Franklin County to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the cities of Dayton and Columbu...
January 31, 2021 - The Comanche County Courthouse will reopen to the public Feb. 16, Central District Commissioner Johnny Owens said Friday. While offi...
January 20, 2021 - Orange County Superior Courtintroduced an online portal for those with traffic infractions and lower-level criminal cases, part of an ongoing effor...
January 19, 2021 - A Southwest Missouri county is making it easier to connect with the county court online. Erik Theis, Jasper Co. Courts Admin, said,...
January 18, 2021 - Less than a month after advocacy groups said they would sue Allegheny County if it did not provide electronic access to its criminal court proceedi...
September 16, 2020 - The coronavirus pandemic has led to inconvenience, unprecedented case backlogs and issues that the nation’s state courts haven’t faced...
September 08, 2020 - Proceedings are instituted in the name of the Queen in the Supreme Court and in the name of the Commissioner of Police in the Magistrate's Cour...
September 04, 2020 - Similar to the U.S. system, criminal activity in Mexico falls under either federal or state jurisdiction, but the Mexican system classifies crimina...
September 01, 2020 - By: Michael Gaul Ordinarily when we talk about a product or service, we focus on what it is. Features, benefits, advantages. We speak to what i...
August 27, 2020 - About the district courts The Netherlands is divided into eleven districts, each with its own court. Each court has a number of...
August 25, 2020 - After a management system overhaul, court records can once again be searched online, providing a quick and convenient way to access records and con...
August 19, 2020 - The Magistracy exercises original jurisdiction in relation to summary criminal matters. The Magistrates’ Courts also facilitate Preliminary I...
July 07, 2020 - For anyone who’s not a lawyer, accessing court records in Kansas is a headache. Depending on the type of court, successfully obtaining record...
May 13, 2020 - The coronavirus pandemic has brought misery, if not inconvenience, to the vast majority of the...
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