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State archivist urges legislative policy decision on land-records modernization
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Tanya Marshall, state archivist and chief records officer, told the House Commerce & Economic Development Committee on Feb. 4 that Vermont has begun electronic land‑records reporting but that broader modernization — including whether the state should pursue a shared municipal system — requires policy direction from the Legislature.
Tanya Marshall, state archivist and chief records officer for the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, told the House Committee on Commerce & Economic Development on Feb. 4 that the agency is managing a growing digital workload and that the next stage of land‑records modernization will require explicit legislative policy choices.
Marshall said the archives — a 20‑person office inside the Secretary of State’s office — operates three repositories (a State Records Center in Middlesex, a state archives vault and a digital archives) and supports roughly 500 records officers and liaisons across state and local government. “We have about 9 terabytes a session coming out between this and the videos,” she said, noting the legislature’s committee records are a major source of digital transfers.
The committee heard that Act 171 of 2022…
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