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Clerk’s office seeks redaction funding, flags staffing needs for elections under new automatic registration law

2703492 · March 19, 2025
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Summary

County Clerk presented a request for funds to finish a records redaction project and described staffing and workflow impacts from automatic voter registration and upcoming elections; administrators recommended partial funding for redaction and approved several personnel retitles/new positions in records and elections.

The county clerk presented the recording, filing and elections office budget requests, including funding for an in‑house redaction effort of legacy recorded documents and staffing changes to handle new workload from automatic voter registration and upcoming election cycles.

County Clerk staff said the office has built a custom redaction queue to remove personal identifiers from decades of scanned documents and originally sought a vendor for full-service redaction at an estimated cost of about $1.6 million. Instead, the office proposed an in-house approach and asked for $125,000…

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