Seneca County Clerk offers free fraud-alert sign-up for online land records
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Summary
County Clerk Christina Lutz announced a free fraud‑alert service tied to Seneca County’s online land records (uslandrecords.com). The county paid a one-time $3,000 setup from recording fee revenues and the public must register names to receive email alerts when records containing those names are posted.
Seneca County Clerk Christina Lutz told supervisors she has implemented a fraud‑alert feature on the county’s online land records portal, uslandrecords.com, that will notify registered users by email when a name they submit appears in new recordings.
Lutz said the county paid a one‑time $3,000 implementation fee (covered from the recording-fee revenue the clerk’s office receives) and will promote the free service with a press release prepared jointly with the county manager. Residents must proactively register the name(s) they use on records — for example, variations like "Joe" and "Joseph" — to receive alerts. If a registrant receives an alert for a record they did not create, instructions will be provided on how to report it to the clerk’s office for follow-up.
Supervisors and staff discussed placing the sign-up link on the county website and including instructions in the press release so constituents can easily enroll. The clerk described the change as a low‑cost, constituent-facing protection step, funded by existing recording‑fee revenues and requiring no new county general-fund expenditure.
Next steps: clerk’s office to finalize press release and coordinate with IT to add a direct sign-up link on the county website.
