Scott Orr reports:
Citing a security breach in a software update, Sandra K. Markham, clerk of Yavapai County Superior Court, on Monday ordered that the ability to print documents from public-access court document computer terminals be shut down.
“One of my clerks was being an investigator, and she just tried to see if something he thought might happen did happen, and it did,” Markham said. She would not identify the specific security flaw or how it might be exploited, saying only that it was related to the print function, which has been disabled on the terminals in both the Prescott and the Camp Verde courthouses.
“It’s a flaw in the computer management system,” she said, noting that all of Arizona’s counties other than Maricopa and Pima, 14 in total, use the same system, AJACS, the Arizona Judicial Automated Case System, to allow the public and employees to search and retrieve court documents from terminals within government buildings.
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Let’s hear it for curious clerks who investigate!