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Rusk County staff draft local policies to handle Act 235 shielding requests
Summary
Register of Deeds and department staff described draft procedures to remove or redact certain public records under Act 235, but raised practical questions about implementation, cross‑office access and duration of shields.
At a Rusk County committee meeting, the register of deeds described departmental draft procedures to implement Act 235 requests to shield specified public records from the county’s public indexes.
The draft described by Mary, the register of deeds, would remove shielded documents from the public index, store originals in a locked, classified file and keep an electronic scanned copy in a secure folder accessible only to intake staff; an edited copy with personally identifiable information redacted would remain for routine local use. Mary said the shielded status would last “10 years or death.”
The proposal grew out of questions about a judicial officer’s request to shield a certified survey map (CSM) and uncertainties about how shielding would appear on committee agendas and…
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