I don't know if this will help but you might tell your local Registrar that this has already been done with Criminal and Civil records in some states and the local counties are facing law suits as a result. Yes, the information was public but before digitization and wholesale release by the counties the records were protected by "funtional obscurity".

The criminal records contained data such as dates of birth and social security numbers and although this could be redacted from the indexes it could not be redacted from the actual document. This same information is available in some of the deeds and deeds of trusts, judgments etc so your register can probably expect suits to follow from the wholesale release of the real property records as well.

Some states have already begun by passing new laws to protect some records from this wholesale distribution and loss of control of the public records.

Texas (my home state) has not seen a problem with this yet but as I recal Florida has and even shut down their internet sites by temporary injunction. As I recall there were several other states facing problems as a result of the wholesale release of this information they had been intrusted to secure.

It has been a while since I did this research but I think you can probably find the cases, arguments, and laws with a search on the internet.

I hope this helps Donna

David Bloys

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