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Open Sourcing PACER Documents via a FireFox Extension

By nipper

If you use PACER often, you might really like the “RECAP” FireFox extension (plug-in).  As you download court documents in PACER, RECAP sends a copy of them to the Internet Archive (making them available for free to the world.  RECAP also alerts you when one of the PACER documents you are about to download is already available in the Internet Archive for free.  A very slick way of freeing government data for the masses.  The < 3 minute video on their website is an excellent overview of all of its features:  How It Works | Recap Firefox Extension. If you have PACER documents you’ve previously downloaded that you’d like to donate to the same? similar? cause (by manually uploading them), check out http://pacer.resource...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).