6th Conference on Privacy and Public Access to Court Records   November 6-7, 2008 DRAFT Agenda

 

 

Wednesday, November 5, 2008                                                                                                                                 

  

6:00 – 7:30      Welcome Reception

                                   

Wine and hors d'ouevres served in William and Mary Law School Lobby                             

 

Thursday, November 6, 2008                                                                                                                                     

 

8:00 – 8:30      Registration and breakfast

 

8:30 – 8:45      Welcome and conference overview

                                   

Professor Fred Lederer, Chancellor Professor of Law & Director, Center for Legal and Court Technology

                        Robert Deyling, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

 

8:45 – 10:15    Recent Developments in State Court Public Access and Privacy Policy Development

                       

                        Moderator:   Justice John Dooley, Supreme Court of Vermont                    

                        Panelists:      Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, South Carolina, New Hampshire

 

A discussion of the most interesting developments in state court public access policies, including the tension between court policies and legislative action, the impact of state constitutional provisions on court access policies, redaction of criminal records, and the use of confidential coversheets.

 

10:15 – 10:45  Break 

 

10:45 – 12:15  Recent Developments in State Court Public Access Policy Implementation

 

Moderator:   Justice Paul Anderson, Supreme Court of Minnesota 

Panelists:      Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Indiana, California               

 

                        This panel will investigate state court progress in implementing policy decisions, with a special focus on what has worked and which policy choices have been more difficult to implement in practice.

 

12:15 – 1:30  Lunch

  

1:30 – 3:00    What is the Privacy Interest in Public Records?

 

Moderator:  Robert Deyling, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts 

Panelists:      Professor Helen Nissenbaum, NYU

                      Professor Peter Winn, University of Washington

                      Professor Peter Martin, Cornell University

 

                        How has our understanding of "privacy" in court records evolved, given current technological and social realities? Panelists who have spent their careers describing “privacy” will examine changing realities in the definition of privacy.

 

3:00 – 3:15      Break

 

3:15 – 4:15      The New Court Record and High Tech Access to Court Proceedings: Implications for Privacy

 

                        Professor Fred Lederer, Chancellor Professor of Law & Director, Center for Legal and Court Technology

           

4:15 – 5:30      Charging for Access to Court Records: Promise and Pitfalls 

 

Moderator:

Alan Carlson, Chief Executive Officer, Orange County Superior Courts

                   

 

Court systems are increasingly turning to online records access as a means of revenue in times of pinched court budgets. This panel will discuss the risks and benefits of charging for access and the range of approaches at both the federal and state level to fee-for-access systems.

 

6:45 – 9:00       Wine Reception & Conference Dinner at the Historic Wren Building

 

                        [Optional] - Advance Registration Required

 

Friday, November 7, 2008                                                                                                                                          

 

8:00 – 8:30      Breakfast

 

8:30 – 10:00    International Perspective on Court Records Access

 

Moderator:	Rebecca Hulse, Assistant Director for Privacy & Technology, CLCT and Senior Lecturer, William & Mary Law School
Panelists:	Russia:	Igor Drozdov, Leader of Apparatus, Administrator of the Highest Arbitrage Court, Russian Federation
	Spain:	Professor Julio Banacloche and Professor Enrique Vallines, Universidad Complutense Madrid
	China:	Chang Wang, Attorney Consultant, Thomson Reuters Legal and Associate Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law
	Canada:	Kate Welsh, Courts Advisory Counsel for Alberta Court of Appeal, Court of Queen's Bench, and Provincial Court

  

This panel will examine court records privacy and access in Canada, Spain, China, and Russia with particular emphasis on how the privacy vs. access balance is struck, how technology is affecting the balance, and access trends in these countries.

 

10:00 – 10:15  Break

 

10:15 – 11:45  Technological Advance and Access

 

Moderator:	Tom Clarke, Vice President, National Center for State Courts
Panelists:	John Ruegg, Chair, Los Angeles County Information Systems Advisory Body (Automated Enforcement of Privacy Policies)
	Paul Embley, Chief Information Office, National Center for State Courts (Google-proofing Court Websites)
	Chips Shore, County Clerk, Manatee County, Florida (Automated Redaction of Court Documents)

 

11:45 – 1:15    Lunch

 

1:15 – 2:30      Private Justice and Court Records 

 

Moderator:	The Honorable Larry Smukler, Associate Justice, New Hampshire Superior Court
Panelists:	Professor Laurie Doré, Drake University Law School
	Judge Richard Levie (ret.)
	JAMS-Endispute Tom Leighton, Vice President, Government Relations and Contracts, Westlaw

  

The growing sense that the court system lacks confidentiality has driven many litigants to seek refuge in the private justice system. Mediation and arbitration, for example, offer litigants the ability to seal their disputes from public view. Should the rise of private justice affect our decision making about court records access? Is there a risk that increased access to court records will drive litigants to private forums? Should courts act to slow this trend?

 

2:30 – 3:00      Summary of Conference Proceedings and Plans for Follow-up