Guess things have changed since I worked in a Court House. When I was a clerk in Lane County in Eugene, Oregon, it was made very clear to all of us that the taxpayers paid our wages and we were in that court house to take care of the public. If they wanted copies of something we were to get to it and help them out, those records were[and I thought still are] PUBLIC RECORDS and the people essentially paid our wages and we were to jump to and be courteous and get copies of whatever the people wanted.