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B-185484 1 (1976-05-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddmq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-185484 THE COMPTRDL.LER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DATE: MAY 211976 MATTER OF: District of Columbia court reporters DIGEST: qg9021 Section 1727(b) of title 11, D.C. Code, which permits court reporters to augment their salaries by collecting fees from litigants for transcript sales but states that reporters shall furnish all supplies at their own expense, precludes reporters from retaining fees for transcripts produced through computer-aided transcription system to be financed by Federal grant funds or District of Columbia Court appropriations where reporters bear less than full cost of equipment for transcription system, including maintenance and telephone charges. The Executive Officer of the District of Columbia CourtsLrequests our opinion on several legal questions arising from a proposed $75,000 subgrantEby the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Dep rtment of Justice, to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for a project entitled Computer-aided Transcription of Superior Court Proceedings. ') UThe subgrant would finance a pilot program designed to provide four to six of the Superior Court's 46 court reporters with a computer software system to be procured from a contractor. The participating court reporters would record court proceedings on stenographic machines equipped with magnetic tape cartridges. The cartridges would be inserted into a mini-computer, and notes of testimony from the cartridges would be transritted by telephone lines to the contractor's large-scale computer for translation into English. The translation is returned to the mini-computer, which then prints .a draft transcript to be sub- mitted for the reporter's review and correction. After corrections are made, the final transcript is printed, collated, and trimmed for delivery. 3 Subgrant funds would be used to procure from the contractor all necessary equipment, such as the mini-computer, stenographic machines, cartridges, etc.; maintenance for the system; and tuning and programmng, apparently including training, of the participating court reporters. In-addition, the contractor would charge approximately 50 cents for each page of computer-aided copy. This per page charge would be paid by the court reporters. ( Y

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