Yes, I agree with you Jay but the problem needs to be brought to the attention of everyone in their own communities now. Any state legislator that proposes changes will then be aware that his own constituents are demanding these changes.

It is the local communites that for 200 years have felt safe with their records being held by their local governments. Now they need to know that their local governments are being forced to release their private documents worldwide in a way that is beyond the jurisdiction of their county, their state or even the U.S. government.

Individual abstractors are in a key position because we know the records that are available and have witnessed first hand the bleeding of the local records into the world wide web. We are in a position also to reveal the cases of identity theft and stalker attacks that may have occured in your own communities as a result of digital access to local records.

I hope that abstractor or public records researcher will report these cases to SOT and NALTEA where they can be compiled and presented to state legislatures and the news media.