FC: In New Jersey, privacy fears trump access to government records

[Declan McCullagh]

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.
    [...]




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