Recorder outlines scanning progress, storage plans and divorce-records questions

Recorder's office staff reviewed a multi-year scanning and records-reduction effort that used CARES/ARPA funding. Staff said the current vendor (US Imaging) will store scanned volumes at a Michigan site while the office completes migration to cloud-based records and a new retention schedule. The recorder cautioned that some scanned divorce files have not been fully audited and that judges have resisted destroying paper copies going back to the 1930s, because older paper files can still be needed for retirement or benefit claims.