Back in July I talked about a petition urging to improve PACER [1], the online access service to U.S. court records and documents. Until improvements are made, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society [2]at Harvard have stepped in to provide a tool to give open access to court documents that originate on PACER [3] in cooperation with the Internet Archive [4]. The video below is a presentation [5] by Steve Schultze [6], fellow of the Berkman Center and new Associate Director at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy [7] at the September 8, 2009 conference Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase [8] explaining how the tool RECAP [9] (a Firefox extension) works: