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Lorain County and Recorder’s Office Discuss Using Equipment Fund to Help Pay for Countywide Cybersecurity
Summary
Commissioners and the Lorain County recorder discussed whether special revenue in the recorder’s equipment fund (about $639,000–$640,000) and recording-fee splits could be used to cover quarterly vendor costs and county cybersecurity maintenance after recent breaches; recorder said core operations are lean and half of per-document fees go to Ohio Housing Trust.
Commissioners on Nov. 19 pressed the Lorain County recorder on ways to help the county pay for shared cybersecurity and IT services after recent security incidents.
The recorder’s representative said the office’s 2026 operating request is about $1,000,071 including salary and hospitalization, plus roughly $15,000 for supplies, and that the recorder’s special technology/equipment reserve stood at about $639,000 as of Oct. 31. The recorder also told the panel the office typically pays its software vendor, Document Technology Systems (DTS), roughly $17,000 per quarter from that fund and that the office’s…
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