[ejb999]

According to the Bar website:

>>>The site owner (of judyrecords) claims that the State Bar’s confidential and public case records were all previously available at a public URL. Is this true?

>>>The State Bar Court website allows the public to search for publicly available case information. The extent to which the external aggregating website was able to obtain nonpublic information that was stored in the Odyssey case management system is still being investigated.

I am inclined to believe judyrecords, until proven otherwise.

[5ESS]

It’s pretty gross that they won’t admit they made a mistake and instead choose to mislead the public using deceptive language.

[ejb999]

Yep, not unlike the other recent story where someone scraped a website and ended up pulling in SSN's and other personal information that was on the page, but not visible (but in the html) - and then the government threatened to prosecute the person who reported the problem.

A perfect example why MORE public information is better than less.

[aksss]

Well, it’s the CA state bar - it’s the den for all the lawyers in a juggernaut state. Misdirection through deceptive - sorry persuasive - language is literally what a goodly number of them do every day for a living.