[Web4lib] Firefox plugin Recap to provide free public access to PACER material

[Robert Malesko]

An interesting development in accessing public court records
out of the Center for Information Technology at Princeton University. 


Accessing US court material from PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic 
Records) currently requires a credit card and charges 8¢ per page; accessing the same records from the Recap repository are free.

Recap, a Firefox plugin, uploads to a public repository (hosted by the Internet Archive) a copy of
items retrieved from PACER. It also notifies a user if requested PACER records have
already been uploaded. https://www.recapthelaw.org/


-Robert Malesko