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Walker County court approves temporary records-scanning clerk funded by clerk fees
Summary
The Commissioner's Court approved a temporary, part-time records-scanning position funded from dedicated county clerk records-management and archive accounts to reduce a backlog of historical case files and preserve permanent records. The position will be paid from fee accounts, not general revenue.
The Walker County Commissioner's Court on a voice vote approved a temporary part-time records-scanning clerk position to reduce a backlog of historical court records and support statutory records-retention duties.
County Clerk (unnamed in the record) told commissioners the clerk's office is responsible for preserving permanent public records dating to the late 1800s and that scanning backlog includes thousands of civil, probate and criminal files. The clerk said the county holds roughly $382,000 in a records management account and about…
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