The week before Christmas, Connecticut’s court system announced that as of Jan. 2, it would moving its notices from newspapers to a bare webpage on the Judicial Branch’s website. “It is expected that this will save a great deal of time and expense, and provide greater accuracy and broader notice than newspaper publication,” the judicial branch said in a statement posted on its website.

Connecticut courts are not required by state statute to publish notices in print, but until last month they relied on newspapers to satisfy their notice requirements, said Chris VandeHoef, executive director of the Connecticut Daily Newspapers Association.