I read through it rather quickly. It does seem to create some confusion for the county officials, but it hasn't had too much of an affect on most of our counties. Only one county official in one of the counties we cover had even hear anything about this bill. She was planning on shutting down ALL access to her records in the Auditor's office until she got an attorney general's opinion. However, today I am still able to access all of the information online.
Most of the online images, maintained by the recorders' offices, were taken down many months ago. Online indexes are still available as far as I know.
Unfortunately, I don't think that our legislators are really thinking about real estate records when they pass these kinds of laws. They are probably trying to prohibit records maintained by the courts, police departments, hospitals, etc., from becoming subject to requests for public records just because they are maintained by a government office. They realize that some of that information should not be available to just anyone, but once again, they are overlooking the fact that our real estate records contain a lot of the same information.
Best,
Robert A. Franco
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