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Town clerks warn HB 7255 redaction mandate could be costly and technically infeasible without vendor changes
Summary
The Connecticut Town Clerks Association and municipal clerks told the Judiciary Committee that Section 1 of HB 7255 — which would require agencies to redact certain personal information from online records — raises major technical, cost and operational questions for municipalities that post decades of land records online.
Town clerks and municipal officials told the Judiciary Committee that a proposal to require public‑agency redaction of personal information from online records would pose major operational and cost challenges for municipalities that have digitized decades of land and municipal records.
Lisa Dalton, first vice president of the Connecticut Town Clerk's Association and Watertown town clerk, told the committee the association objects to Section 1 of HB 7255 as written. "There are many complexities to what may seem like the simple process of merely clicking here and there to remove…
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