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Authentication of Online Legal Resources

By jlutz99

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Do you know what online legal resources are 'official' or 'authenticated?' Have a look at the State-by State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources.

AALL?s follow-up State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources is essentially an answer to another timely question ? How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web? Trustworthiness is fundamental to PPA and inherently a matter of great concern to AALL members and the legal community. This report examines the results of an online state survey that investigated which governmenthosted legal resources on the Web are official and capable of being considered authentic.
The Authentication Survey, completed by AALL Members in 2006, targeted six sources of law: state administrative codes and registers, state statutes and session laws, and state high and intermediate appellate court opinions.
The summary answer to the question of their trustworthiness is this: A significant number of the state online legal resources are official but none are authenticated or afford ready authentication by standard methods. State online primary legal resources are therefore not sufficiently trustworthy.

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).