You're missing the point entirely, Steve.  Of course there is no way for you or me to "police" the land records, to use your vernacular, nor is it our responsibility.

The point is that those county residents have the right to expect that the sensitive information they entrust to their duly elected officials is safeguarded from information predators.  Sure, progress is great.  I'm all for it...certainly does make our jobs easier.  Does that mean we should all sacrifice safety for the sake of convenience?

Sorry, but I'm still not sold on the accuracy of electronic records, either.  The county I wrote about when I started this thread lost over 20,000 (that's twenty-thousand) document images when someone in the IT Department failed to run a backup of the system.  There are gaps in the records to this very day.  That's why there should always be some kind of hard-copy backup, be it microfilm or whatever.

Thanks, Steve, but your arguments are not at all persuasive.

Regards,
Scott Perry