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Judges enveloped by mountains of paper, clerks pushing carts piled high with files and people traveling to the courthouse just to look at documents — all could become obsolete in Maryland, as the judiciary moves toward an electronic courts system.
“Right now, you go to court and you say, ‘Can I see the file?’ [Soon] there won’t be a file,” said District Court Chief Judge Ben C. Clyburn, who heads the e-court advisory committee. Instead, people will be able to view a virtual file online.
Nationwide, courts are shedding their historic reliance on paper and moving to e-court systems, said James E. McMillan, an e-courts consultant for the National Center for State Courts.
None has completely abandoned paper, and Maryland will fall into line with the nationwide trend. Plans call for keeping records electronically, doing business electronically and using paper only when it’s requested. But lawyers and individuals still will be able to file paper and clerks will digitize the documents.
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