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While court files always have been public, they were considered to enjoy 'practical obscurity.' That is, the records were stored in such an inaccessible fashion that only the determined and resourceful could obtain them. To this day, most records probably

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While court files always have been public, they were considered to enjoy 'practical obscurity.' That is, the records were stored in such an inaccessible fashion that only the determined and resourceful could obtain them. To this day, most records probably are stored at the local level on different types of media (paper, magnetic tape) and are indexed with varying degrees of accuracy and usefulness.

Citation Source: 
EPIC 2003

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology