You are correct it is just a database, GI/GO. However, the records are free to access. I am not saying free to print. When the system, any system, is too complex to access the records they have removed the public from public access. These multi layered steps to access documents are for who's benefit?

You are I are in agreement for the most part. In my original post I referred to what the County Recorder's basic functions are, when they deviate from that is where the real issue lies.