Take another look Mathew. Red Vision offers more than one service. Here is what they have to say.

"TitleVision/Managed is an outsourced title abstract service. Our Gainesville, Florida based staff of fully trained and experienced title searchers and examiners use TitleVision/Online to produce Deed reports, Current Owner reports, Institutional Mortgage reports or Full chain reports and other custom products to meet your specific needs"

Aparently they expect you to pay them to access the records they seized at taxpayer expense from your county. Alternatively, they offer to just take your clients with their "outsourced title abstract service". Your only fooling yourself if you expect Red Vision to allow the local abstractor or taxpayer to profit in any way. Remember the taxpayer? He's the poor smuck who paid the county to create a repository of documents he entrusted to the county.

What are you talking about controlled release? There is no controlled release of the bulk records. There will be, when legislators give the records back to their rightful owners, the taxpayer..

I didn't grow up with computers Mathew. I bought my first system for $10000. There was no hard drive, only an 8" floppy. I taught DOS, Lotus, Dbase and word processing at the local college. Ive enjoyed the benefits of technology and continue to enjoy the benefits with mobile offices. Their are many positive aspects technology. Trafficking in the sensitive information of whole communities is not one of them.

You are not powerless to stop this runaway train Mathew. You have the backing of every local citizen who pays taxes to create a repository of county property records. How would you feel if elected officials paid 100,000 for a maintainer and then sold it to an out of state company for nine dollars? The records contained in the county court house are the greatest single asset owned by the taxpayers. What else has taken 200 years to develop at local taxpayer expense? What is the true value of the documented lives of every citizen, living and dead in any community? Who should control, and profit from this asset, if not the community itself?