WE STAND at the threshold of the electronic courthouse. In the very near future, electronic filing and imaging technologies could enable anyone with Internet access to retrieve, review and print out court records from their home or office computer with just a few clicks of the mouse. Indeed, in the virtual courthouse, anyone with a computer has the key to the file room and a window on the workings of the justice system.
The promise of instant online access to court records could give new meaning to the term “open government,” shedding light as never before on the daily business of the courts. At the same time, the public electronic dissemination of court records containing details about the private lives of individual citizens, with its Orwellian overtones, may require us to redefine the concept of openness in the 21st century.
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