http://pibuzz.com/2007/01/16/this-week-in-public-records-virginia-california-iowa-mississippi/ Private Investigator Blog - Public Records, Internet Search - PI Buzz Thu, 17 May 2012 19:35:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://pibuzz.com/2007/01/16/this-week-in-public-records-virginia-california-iowa-mississippi/comment-page-1/#comment-57142 PI Buzz - Private Investigator | Public Records | Internet Search | Privacy | Reporting | Personal Information | Adoption | Genealogy | » Why the judgments and liens databases will become obsolete Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:34:32 +0000 http://pibuzz.com/2007/01/16/this-week-in-public-records-virginia-california-iowa-mississippi/#comment-57142 [...] Although the Virginia legislature has yet to enact a pending bill that would remove SSNs from land records and court filings, Nevada county recorders are rejecting filings that contain social security numbers. This new requirement has created a mess in the courts because the County Clerk is required to submit affirmations that the “5,000 documents filed every day in District Court” have the social security numbers removed. Even in the relatively lower volume state of Vermont the county clerks are overwhelmed by the mandate to extract SSNs from previously submitted documents. The Kansas legislature apparently didn’t consider the costly (both personal and financial, to government and business) consequences of redacting data, declaring that Unless required by federal law, no document available for public inspection or copying shall contain an individual’s social security number if such document contains such individual’s personal information. [...] [...] Although the Virginia legislature has yet to enact a pending bill that would remove SSNs from land records and court filings, Nevada county recorders are rejecting filings that contain social security numbers. This new requirement has created a mess in the courts because the County Clerk is required to submit affirmations that the “5,000 documents filed every day in District Court” have the social security numbers removed. Even in the relatively lower volume state of Vermont the county clerks are overwhelmed by the mandate to extract SSNs from previously submitted documents. The Kansas legislature apparently didn’t consider the costly (both personal and financial, to government and business) consequences of redacting data, declaring that Unless required by federal law, no document available for public inspection or copying shall contain an individual’s social security number if such document contains such individual’s personal information. [...]

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