1.2
Release notes for Case Harvester version 1.2:
- New case format parsers:
- K: Circuit Court Criminal Cases
- DSCP: District Court Civil Citations
- DSTRAF: District Court Traffic Cases
- PG: Prince George's County Circuit Court Criminal Cases
- PGV: Prince George's County Circuit Court Civil Cases
- MCCR: Montgomery County Criminal Cases
- MCCI: Montgomery County Civil Cases
- Monthly exports of all tables to S3 for public download
- Auto-scale scraper service based on size of scraper queue
- Added column_metadata table to hold info about column meaning and other attributes used in Case Explorer
- Unredact civil cases
- Miscellaneous parser fixes
This release also includes a workaround for a new anti-scraping measure that was added to the Maryland Judiciary Case Search. Worryingly, MJCS now also seems to have a half-completed reCAPTCHA implementation, which, if it were to be fully implemented and deployed, would make scraping significantly harder and would thus be a major blow to transparency of the MD court system.