Document Overview
SC 9th Circuit Common Pleas Case number: 2025-CP-10-05095Filing Date: September 4, 2026
Document: Formal Public Announcement of Scannergate Filing Scan Quality Testing Portal for Pro Se in South Carolina
Document Type: Formal public announcement launching the Scannergate filing-scan-quality testing portal for South Carolina pro se litigants
Includes: Explains the portal’s free scan-quality and verification tools, alleges that court scanning degrades pro se filings, and contrasts hand-filed scanning with attorneys’ e-filed documents. Includes 2 exhibits: a 117-page Scan Fidelity Report for a docketed U.S. Supreme Court certiorari petition, and full-page and strip scan-quality test targets for use with pro se filings.
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| Name | Description | Type | Filed | Docket Seq. | Documents |
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| Meaghan Poyer |
Formal Public Announcement of Scannergate Filing |
Notice |
09/04/2026 |
P1A66 |
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Executive Summary
Plaintiffs James C. McNeil and Meaghan Poyer, proceeding pro se, filed this Formal Public Announcement of “Scannergate” in their Charleston County Court of Common Pleas case against SAC 181, LLC and related defendants. The filing announces a free Scannergate.com portal and scan-quality test materials intended to help South Carolina self-represented litigants assess whether, and to what level court-filed PDFs have been degraded through scanning. Plaintiffs assert that the court’s use of one-bit bitonal/fax-style compression has degraded photographic evidence and removed searchable text from their filings, creating a disparity with attorneys’ native electronic filings. The filing includes a scan-fidelity report alleging that the court printed and rescanned their Supreme Court certiorari petition despite receiving a native digital courtesy copy, and states that the practice is the subject of a pending constitutional challenge.
Legal Significance
Rather than seeking substantive relief against the defendants; this filing formally places on the case record plaintiffs’ allegations that the Charleston County Court’s scanning practices degrade pro se filings, including photographic evidence and searchable text.
Plaintiffs support that assertion with a scan-fidelity report for their separately docketed petition for writ of certiorari, reporting that 115 of 117 pages were one-bit bitonal images and lacked native text. It also publicizes external scan-quality tools and proposed test targets for use by self-represented litigants.
The filing preserves plaintiffs’ position that docket-scanning practices implicate evidentiary integrity and equal-access/due-process concerns, while not itself proving the merits of the underlying claims or modifying any case deadlines or rulings.
Notably, the filing appeared on the public docket on September 10, 6 days after it was filed. Typically, Plaintiff filings have appeared on the docket a few business hours after being filed.
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The official docket copy of this filing was stored by the clerk's scanner as Mixed image encoding. Search engines, assistive technology and AI systems read that shelf. This page carries the filing as the author submitted it, the clerk's FILE stamp as an independent overlay, and the cryptographic tether that lets any reader confirm the two files are the same filing.
Parties in this Record
- Meaghan Poyer (Filed by)
- Charleston County Court of Common Pleas (Court)