In a two year pilot project, free public access to federal court records via PACER has been made available at 16 libraries in 14 states under a joint pilot project of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and the Government Printing Office.
According to a press release from the US Courts, the project is part of the judiciary’s continuing effort to expand public access to court records by discovering if a segment of the public desires access to information contained in the PACER system but is unlikely to go to a courthouse or become a PACER user.
The federal depository libraries participating in the pilot are:
- Alaska State Court Law Library, AK
- 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Library, IL
- San Bernadino County Law Library, CA
- University of Michigan School of Law, MI
- Sacramento County Public Law Library, CA
- University of Tennessee College of Law, TN
- Nova Southeastern University Law Library, FL
- New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library, NM
- Lee College, TX
- Rutgers Law Library, NJ
- State Library of Ohio, OH
- Fordham Law School, NY
- Wayne State University, MI
- Rogers State University, OK
- Portland Public Library, ME
- Northern Kentucky University, KY