Request made for all recorder files

By Michael Williamson, Richwood Gazette

A high-volume public records request has pushed Union County to change its records policy.

Thayne Gray, assistant county prosecutor, requested the policy change to the board on Jan. 4 after learning the recorder’s office received a records request last week for all of the office’s digitized documents – a request that would encompass millions of records.

Gray said it appears that the request went to all recorder’s offices across the state.

“It was an identical request from an individual in Texas who asked for a complete copy of the corpus of the digital records of each recorder’s office. So everything that’s been digitized, …

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