Stop paying for PACER.

• Position: GOVERNMENT RECORDS - Public access to court electronic records - Brief article

A Princeton group is offering an alternative to the U.S. government's Public Access to Court Electronic Records, better known as PACER, and it's free.

Through PACER, federal courts make case documents available online, but it costs eight cents per page. Despite lawmakers' efforts to end the per-page-fee, nothing has changed.

But through RECAP, which was developed by the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, those who rely on PACER can get some relief. According to the ABA Journal, when users visit the RECAP website (www.recapthelaw.org), they can download open-source software through which PACER...