b'E-recording at the JCCOBy: David G. SummerfieldDirector of Information TechnologyLegal Records Manager Angequetta Brown and Deputy Clerk Evelyn Mayes electronically record the first document in Jefferson County.E lectronic recording is the process of submitting offi- and Clerks (NACRC) developed nationwide standards cial documents to a recorders office online and hav- and urged recording industry vendors to create easy-to-ing them reviewed, indexed, recorded, and returneduse computer systems for electronic recording.Accord-to the submitter electronically. ing to the PRIA website, as of January 31, 2020 there are 2,079 counties in the United States that have adopted Establishing an electronic recording service for our cus- electronic recording programs, and that number is ex-tomers has been a goal of the Jefferson County Clerkspected to grow rapidly.Office for over twenty years.Our first conversations about it stretch all the way back to when Mrs. HolsclawIn recent years, the attitude about electronic recording took office in 1999.Back then the JCCOs enthusiasmin Kentucky has slowly begun to change.As a result of for an innovative electronic recording program wasntlegislation passed by the General Assembly last year, shared statewide.Our initial approaches to the Gover- it became legal for county clerks across the Common-nors Office, the Department of Libraries and Archives,wealth to accept electronically filed copies of documents key legislators and the Kentucky County Clerks Associa- for recording on January 1, 2020.The JCCO has been tion didnt generate a lot of support.But we kept trying. quick to react.As the years went by other states and counties devel- Near the beginning of 2019, once we knew the new oped successful electronic recording programs.Orga- law would pass, we began to formally put together a nizations like the Property Records Industry Associationplan for an electronic recording pilot project here at the (PRIA) and the National Association of County RecordersJCCO.In August of last year, we approached our land 4'