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Marion County recorder presents 2026 budget emphasizing digitization and fraud outreach
Summary
Recorder Faith Kimbrough outlined a 2026 budget that includes continued digitization of records, a new same‑day recording pickup process, community fraud-prevention outreach and a small overall budget increase driven by COLA.
Marion County Recorder Faith Kimbrough and Chief Deputy J.R. Reiter presented the recorder's introduced 2026 budget to the Metropolitan and Economic Development Committee on Sept. 15, outlining plans to expand digitization, launch a same-day document pickup process and fund fraud-prevention outreach.
Kimbrough said the recorder's office has preserved more than 11 million records since 1821 and currently staffs 17 positions, with an open executive assistant role expected to be filled by the end of 2025 or in early 2026. Chief Deputy Reiter described staffing and training investments and said the office completed professionally produced position-specific training videos in 2023.
Starting in October, the recorder plans to implement "doc numbers up front," a recording process…
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