Docket in Your Pocket app hits 500,000th search of PA court records

Docket In Your Pocket, an application that can pull Pennsylvania court records dating back to 2000, hit its 500,000th search last week.

The app, which launched in October and was covered by the Inquirer, the Philadelphia Business Journal and NBC 10, is now available on iPhone and Android smartphones as well as many tablet devices and cost $2.99.

So far, Pennsylvania’s court data are the only state records the app can access, but the developers, Iowa-based attorney Matt Haindfield and computer programmer Tim Byrnes, are hoping to expand to other states, according to the latest press release.

To test Docket in Your Pocket the first people this reporter searched on the iPhone version of the app were my brand new employers — Technically Philly. At best, the hope was to quickly dig up some real dirt. At worst, surely one of these Philly residents had incurred a traffic violation over the last few years.

Nada.

What I did not expect was that the only one of the four of us to return any dockets would be this reporter — a traffic violation for going significantly over the 65 mile per hour speed limit in Tioga County dating back to 2006.

Digging up dirt on your co-workers was not precisely what Haindfield had in mind when he decided to develop Docket in Your Pocket, but no doubt the app is being used for just that sort of snooping. The biggest Docket in Your Pocket user group has turned out to be single women running background checks on potential love interests, notes the press release.

500,000: that’s a lot of suspicious dudes.

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