Washoe County recorder reports record digitization, 100,000 documents recorded and free property-fraud alerts

Washoe County Recorder Kaylee Wert and newly named Chief Deputy Gail Spearman briefed the board on the recorder27s office operations and outreach on July 15.

Wert said the office recorded about 100,000 documents last fiscal year (up from roughly 88,000), collected $3.2 million in recording fees and more than $30 million in real-property transfer taxes remitted to the state and redistributed under statutory formulas.

The recorder highlighted a multi-year digitization project that has made millions of property records searchable and said the office27s recording notification service allows homeowners to sign up and receive free email alerts if a document matching their name or parcel is recorded. Wert emphasized the service as a free fraud-prevention tool and urged homeowners to use it.

Wert also outlined operational priorities: maintaining disaster recovery and business-continuity systems, updating software agreements with vendors and continuing book and record preservation. The office will consider a bulk copy-request fee adjustment to address high-volume, commercial requests and expects to come back to the board if statutory or vendor‑agreement changes are needed.

Commissioner and board comments

Commissioners thanked recorder staff for customer service and operations improvements. Commissioners asked how recording fees are set; Wert responded that most recording fees are set by statute and the office collects a flat recording fee for common documents, with other statutory variations for particular filings.

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Wert closed by encouraging residents to sign up for the recorder27s free recording notification service and by noting the office27s ongoing work on disaster recovery, record preservation and scanning of historical marriage and property records.