E-Government Act of 2002

803), is a United States statute enacted on 17 December 2002, with an effective date for most provisions of 17 April 2003.Its stated purpose is to improve the management and promotion of electronic government services and processes by establishing a Federal Chief Information Officer within the Office of Management and Budget, and by establishing a framework of measures that require using Internet-based information technology to improve citizen access to government information and services, and for other purposes.The statute includes within it Section 205(c)(1) requires the federal judiciary to make any document that is filed electronically publicly available online.[2]In April 2016, three non-profit organizations—the Alliance for Justice, the National Veterans Legal Services Program and the National Consumer Law Center—filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,[3] alleging that the judiciary's PACER fee structure violates Section 205(e) in that the fees were not only being used to maintain the system itself, but were being diverted to cover other costs of the federal courts, including courtroom audio systems and flat-screen televisions for jury use.In March 2018, the judge ruled that the PACER fees were impermissibly used to cover unrelated costs.
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