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Our View: High court should back electronic records access
12.27.2011
Published by the Portland Press Herald, Opinion Section
Public records should be as public as possible, and fees should reflect the real costs involved.
If one terabyte hard drives had existed in George Washington's day, all public records would be available for download. Instead, our forefathers put the deeds and real estate transaction histories in courthouses, which were the most easily accessible public places available at the time.
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