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PRESS ADVISORY: Public Access Task Force Final Report Available on Website
The final report of the Connecticut
Judicial Branch’s Public Access Task Force is now available on
the Branch’s website:
Public Access
Task Force Report
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Senior Associate Justice David M. Borden appointed the Task
Force in May. It includes members of the bench, news media, bar
and public. Supreme Court Justice Richard N. Palmer chaired the
Task Force, which had a deadline of Sept. 15, 2006, to submit
its report to Justice Borden.
Justice Borden will meet with the state’s judges on Monday,
Sept. 25, 2006, at 2 p.m., in the Middlesex Judicial District
courthouse, located at 1 Court Street, Middletown. At that
meeting, judges will have the opportunity to comment on the
report’s recommendations. The meeting, to take place in the
jury assembly room, is open to the public.
Justice Borden also has scheduled a press conference for
Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, at 2 p.m., in the attorney conference
room at the Connecticut Supreme Court, located at 231 Capitol
Avenue, Hartford. At this time, he will announce those
recommendations that he plans to implement immediately, and
those for which he will propose a rule or statutory change.
“This report and its various recommendations represent months of
hard work and discussion about how to make the Judicial Branch
more accessible to the public,” Justice Palmer said. “I am
extremely appreciative to all of the members of the Task Force,
and I am honored to have had the opportunity to work with such a
talented and dedicated group of individuals.”
The mission of
the task force was to make concrete recommendations for the
maximum degree of public access to the courts consistent with
the needs of the courts in discharging their core functions of
adjudicating and managing cases.
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