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County Registrars Seek Relief From Statutory Microfilm Requirement as Records Move Online
Summary
Worcester District Register of Deeds Catherine Toomey testified that because 80% of land records are now submitted electronically, the decades‑old statutory requirement to create microfilm is fiscally burdensome, costly and uses obsolete equipment; she urged the committee to update the law or guidance.
Catherine Toomey, Worcester District Register of Deeds, told the committee that the longstanding statutory requirement to produce microfilm copies of land records is increasingly impractical as most documents arrive electronically. "When I came into office, we had a different environment pre‑COVID. About 50% of our documents were actual…
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