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Surrogate emphasizes outreach, digital records and constrained outreach budget

Essex County Board of County Commissioners · January 27, 2025
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Summary

Surrogate Alex Rick Kinney described outreach efforts (estate planning, bilingual materials, adoption and senior events), a digitization project for historical records and tensions about continuing a contracted PR firm versus paying for required county business systems from dedicated trust funds.

Surrogate Alex Rick Kinney outlined the surrogate court’s recent outreach and communications work and said the office used a contracted public‑relations group to make materials more accessible to non‑legal audiences. He said the office handled thousands of probate matters and had produced bilingual materials on…

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