• Michigan Registers of Deeds Win Court Battle Over Copies Four title insurance companies recently filed a lawsuit against the registers of deeds in five Michigan counties after they were informed they could no longer resell the bulk data sets they purchased at discount prices from the counties. 

• Courthouse for Sale – Cheap!

• In what could be the largest single transfer of a county asset to a private company in the history of Texas, Fort Bend County Clerk Dianne Wilson recently sold every document ever filed with the county clerk’s office to a Florida-based company.

• Federal Judge Orders County Imaging Software Destroyed Fourteen Counties in Texas receive cease and desist orders

• Privacy for Pets? Yes. Privacy for People? No. Recent Texas Attorney General and U.S. Federal Court Rulings

• Courthouse for Sale – Cheap!
  167 Years to create, ten years to package – gone in less than a week.

• County records: 'Damage is done,' says expert   "It strips people of all dignity and all privacy. I think Texans deserve better than being strip-searched by strangers on the Internet," Bloys said.

• SmartMoney.com's Meet the Stalkers list Your Social Security Number is just a click away

• When Government Officials Aren't What They Seem Texas officials and Pennsylvania cats tout misleading credentials

• The Lives of Three Citizens
  As told told and sold on the county Web site

• Broadcast It To The World? Or Keep It At the Courthouse?
  Exporting America one County at a time

• County Clerk Dianne Wilson sold millions of Fort Bend's records

• 'Public record' takes on new meaning in county

• Federal Judge Orders County Imaging Software Destroyed
  Fourteen Counties in Texas receive cease and desist orders

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