Opinion

Court reporting is a high-tech record

Posted March 28, 2015 1:00 am

This is in response to the letter "Court reporting can go a step further" by Adelore Petrie. I've been a certified shorthand reporter for 20 years. For your information, court reporting is in the 21st Century.

Court reporting is anything but primitive. We don't use typewriters. We use machines that are computerized and can produce a transcript simultaneously with proceedings.

Court reporters are the unbiased keepers of the record. We're an officer of the court.

Court reporters produce a verbatim record, so I'm not sure what you mean by more accurate and free of bias and more just decisions. Those who think you can video something and then just hand it over to the attorneys or the court don't know the first thing about court reporting. There's so much more to it.

Susan Schafer

Wheeling

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