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Travis criminal docket data now online

In a past life, I performed opposition research on nearly two dozen judicial campaigns. But back in the '90s when I was performing that work professionally, vetting an incumbent judge's record was a pretty hard slog. You basically had to physically go to the courthouse and wade through stacks of paper just to compile detailed, judge by judge docket information. Then came the grueling task of analyzing their work, which frequently involved sitting in some musty file room in the courthouse basement for days on end.Now, much of that information is available or capable of being made available online, as evidenced by Travis County courts' creation of a new docket search application, a tool which allows anyone to search all current and future criminal court dockets...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).