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JCIT warns on bulk‑data APIs, forms Texas working group to study aggregator access and county impacts
Summary
Standards committee flagged demand from data aggregators for bulk feeds and urged a new working group to study use cases, revenue models, and county bandwidth and privacy implications before enabling statewide APIs.
The standards committee reported growing external interest in bulk data and document APIs (a machine‑to‑machine feed sometimes called a data pipeline), and urged policymakers to study the implications before turning those feeds on statewide.
Why it matters: a permanent bulk feed would enable commercial aggregators, background‑check vendors and legal research services to pull large volumes of case metadata or documents. Committee members raised concerns about county bandwidth, vendor costs, how to set fees or revenue shares, and local…
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