Investigate THIS !

The Taubman Center for Public Policy has just released its 2005 report on State and Federal E-Government, an analysis of 1,620 state and federal government sites. This annual study of the features, advances and limitations of the websites had some especially valuable conclusions related to the Federal courts and legal research.

One of the disturbing aspects of the study reports that federal government websites have a number of quality control issues, such as broken links, missing titles and missing keywords. If your legal research at the court sites fails you, this may be why.

Using the random sample of 5,000 pages from each federal agency, the jurisdiction with the largest number of missing titles was the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals 2,710), followed by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals (2,023), 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (1,472), the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (1,418), and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (1,375).

The site with the largest number of missing keywords was the National Labor Relations Board (5,003), followed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (5,001), and the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.

The award for the largest number of missing descriptions goes to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The site with the largest number of broken links: 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (1,641).
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