"RECAP: Crowdsourcing U.S. Federal Court Transparency"

Posted by Connie Crosby: "Back in July I talked about a petition urging to improve PACER, the online access service to U.S. court records and documents.  Until improvements are made, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard have stepped in to provide a tool to give open access to court documents that originate on PACER in cooperation with the Internet Archive. The video below is a presentation by Steve Schultze, fellow of the Berkman Center and new Associate Director at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy at the September 8, 2009 conference Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase explaining how the tool RECAP (a Firefox extension) works: