#dockets

Making Access Happen...from home

Staff at the National Archives at Riverside are continuing to work to make records available to the public in this time of telework and home confinement.  We have a large collection of records created by the U.S. District Courts in southern California, Arizona and Nevada.  So, we’ve taken pictures of the dockets and are creating an index of the historic court cases we have (prior to 1969).  When we get back in the building, we will check them against the case files and upload the lists into our catalog.  This isn’t the first time we’ve done this, though.  Check our file listings for the Globe and Prescott, Arizona courts.

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