The Department of Justice has asked the federal judiciary to eliminate public Internet access to plea agreements in criminal case files and all related docket notations.
The judiciary currently provides public Internet access to all nonsealed plea agreements in electronic case files. This policy has been in effect since November 2004, but most courts did not implement it until they adopted an electronic case file system, typically at some point between 2005 and 2007.
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