A pilot project to make digital audio recordings of courtroom proceedings publicly available on-line has been expanded through the end of 2009.

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the Minnesota District Court, and four bankruptcy courts in the Middle District of Florida, Eastern District of New York, Southern District of New York and Rhode Island have been added to the project. New York Southern and Rhode Island already are offering recordings on-line, and the other four courts are moving toward implementation.

They join the five original pilot courts U.S. District Courts in Nebraska and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in the Eastern District of North Carolina, Northern District of Alabama, and Maine.

The audio files are accessible through the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. More than one million subscribers use PACER to access docket and case information from federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts.

August 6,2007 Press Release
Project Expanded: More Courts Offering Digital Audio Recordings Online
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