AI scraping is one big reason not to put older briefs & case-support material online. When briefs were submitted by mail and only ready by maybe 8 people total (unless someone went to the courthouse to look at them), privacy wasn’t as big a concern as it should have been. Lots of very personal info.
The privacy concerns are also real. It would be beyond horrible to feed a detailed transcript about a sexual assault (with names!) into a system siphoning off information to turn into other stories..
Florida apparently decided in 2002 that this internet thing is probably going to stick, so we’re putting it in AN ACTUAL STATUTE that court clerks cannot put family law and probate case documents online. Thank goodness. There’s also extremely strict confidentiality controls for all case types.
