{"id":1742,"date":"2019-12-17T21:49:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?page_id=1742"},"modified":"2019-12-17T21:49:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:49:03","slug":"the-time-warp-at-the-durham-courthouse-where-paper-records-get-stuffed-into-shucks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/the-time-warp-at-the-durham-courthouse-where-paper-records-get-stuffed-into-shucks\/","title":{"rendered":"The time warp at the Durham courthouse, where paper records get stuffed into &#8216;shucks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The record-keeping system at the Durham courthouse is a glimpse back in time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A large room in the Durham clerk\u2019s office has drawers full of tightly rolled ribbons of film. An assistant clerk feeds a strip of \u201cmicrofilm\u201d into an old-fashioned grey machine and turns a knob. The black and white screen shows court records from as recently as twelve years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few steps over, there are stacks of large judgment books, bound in canvas and leather. Inside the books, in carefully crafted cursive, live the names of defendants and plaintiffs alongside their verdicts from cases until 2007.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reporter Swathi Ramprasad went through the time warp and explored <a href=\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2019\/12\/16\/at-the-courthouse-replacing-shucks-with-modern-record-keeping\/\">how the process is going to change<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The record-keeping system at the Durham courthouse is a glimpse back in time. 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