Updated Pacer Will Feature User-Friendly Search: Courts Admin. Office
Plans to update the federal court system's Pacer service include enhanced search functionality such as unified search capability and search technology that's cloud based "both intuitive and user-friendly," Roslynn Mauskopf, U.S. Courts Administrative Office director, wrote lawmakers Wednesday. The new…
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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 capability will also 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.