Making digital audio recordings of courtroom proceedings publicly available online “has become an operational way of doing business” for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of North Carolina, said Judge J. Rich Leonard.
“It’s gone from a novel tool to an anticipated product, with fairly high usage,” he said. “I consider it a great advance in making our federal courts transparent.”
Providing digital audio recordings online has proved “extremely easy” for the U.S. District Court in Nebraska, reported Judge Richard Kopf. “Many lawyers think this is the best thing since sliced bread,” he said.
In a pilot project that began last August, five federal courts are docketing some digital audio recordings to Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) systems to make the audio files available in the same way written files have long been available on the Internet. The three other courts are the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Maine, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts Office of Public Affairs
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