Without explaining its policy change, the Supreme Judicial Court announced “that the Rules of Electronic Court Systems (RECS) have been amended to provide that a court record in a civil case will be accessible to the public upon entry into the electronic case file, unless prohibited by law or by court order. The amendments will take effect on March 15, 2021 to allow time for technical programming necessary to implement the change.”
The Court may have to explain it. They are seeking comments and questions through their online portal. Here’s the court system’s announcement dated February 22, 2021
https://www.courts.maine.gov/news/article.html?id=4185399
The rule amendment can be found here:
https://www.courts.maine.gov/rules/amendments/2021_mr_02_recs.pdf
Original Rules can be found here:
https://www.courts.maine.gov/rules/amendments/2020_mr_03_recs.pdf