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WASHINGTON – More federal courts have begun to offer digital audio recordings of courtroom proceedings as part of an expanded program intended to give more access to case information.

Federal bankruptcy courts in Florida, New York and Rhode Island, as well as the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, have joined five other federal courts in making the recordings available as part of a federal judiciary pilot program.

Rhode Island has gone an extra step by offering the recordings online, and the other courts have plans to do the same in the future.

Five other courts – U.S. District Courts in Nebraska and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in the Eastern District of North Carolina, Northern District of Alabama and Maine – have already been providing recordings through the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system.

More than 950,000 subscribers use PACER to access docket and case information from federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts.

The Judicial Conference’s Executive Committee voted to expand access to the records in January.

The Public Access and Records Management Division of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts will determine what the appropriate fee should be if such access becomes permanent. Currently, computer disks of hearings are available for $26.

-Kimberly Atkins

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