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Earlier this week, I spent a lot of time calling and emailing a clerk in Anaconda-Deer Lodge District Court. She, like court clerks around the state, helps members of the public navigate the vast and complex web of a local court system.

As a journalist, clerks of district courts are often my first call when I’d like copies of court filings that I can see in the state’s public online portal for district court records, called FullCourt. But on Aug. 26, I ran into a problem that Anaconda Deer-Lodge Clerk of District Court Jodi Lechman c

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