Updated Pacer Will Feature User-Friendly Search, Courts Admin. Office Says
Plans to update the federal court system's Public Access to Court Electronic Records (Pacer) service include enhanced search functionality such as unified search capability and search technology that's cloud-based and "both intuitive and user-friendly," Rosslynn Mauskopf, U.S. Courts Administrative Office…
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director, wrote lawmakers on Oct. 19. The new search capabilities will allow record searches from a central repository crossing court boundaries, eliminating the need to search for records at each individual federal court, Mauskopf said. The unified search capability also will enable full text searches and searches by judges’ names. "The new search technology will be both easy to use and free for non-commercial users," she said. However, the Open Courts Act "may unduly constrain the effort we have underway," Mauskopf said, noting Congressional Budget Office opinions that eliminating Pacer fees will cost the Judiciary $1 billion over a 10-year period.