This editorial expresses one person's opinion regarding the Florida State Supreme Court's decision that recordings of court proceedings are not official and therefore should not be public record. The reasoning behind the decision is that confidential information could have been inadvertently included in the tapes, and therefore they shouldn't be released in unedited form to the public. The writer is concerned that the courts want to go further and strike electronic recordings and videotapes from the definition of court records and make transcripts the only official record. The author feels this is too drastic and other measure could be taken in order to protect personal information or to prevent it from being included in recordings.
Posted
Dec 05 2008, 10:58 AM
by
Serge Obolensky, CAE