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Caldwell County clerk reports loss of public records, including closed-session minutes, after server failure
6443781 · September 23, 2025
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Summary
The county clerk read into the record that files from a former clerk's online drive were corrupted by a failing server; closed-session minutes from June 3, 2019, through Nov. 15, 2021, were among the files noted as compromised.
Caldwell County Clerk Abby Rich informed the Board of Commissioners on Sept. 22 that public records kept in an online drive during the tenure of a previous clerk, Thomas Welch, were lost after the county's old server began corrupting files.
Rich said she read the notice into the official record at the direction of…
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