Thank you Cathy. I began my battle against the bulk release and publication of the public reocord online as it seemed to me to be the only right thing to do. My community was at risk as were my clients and the industry we all serve. Since then I have been contacted privately by many of my clients and fellow abstractors. The county clerks and recorders are beginning to face this problem as well. Last week I helped a local county block the bulk release of their records until legislation can be passed. Yesterday I received an email from a Recorder in Michigan so I am spending the weekend providing her with the information she will need to defend her community against the Federal suit filed against her county and three others in Michigan.

During the course of my research I have come to know several facts that are indisputable when faced with the evidence. Access to the community records over the Internet violates and endangers the citizens of the community. It lowers the professionalism of the Industry as a whole and drives the fees down to the point of $6.00 a day when outsourced via bulk transfer and Internet access. It exposes the citizens to exploitation that ranges annoying to deadly. The online access of our public records is being exploited by international corporations, forein and domestic identity thieves and terrorists. According to the FBI this could result in the next Savings and Loan Scandal that destroyed most of the savings and loan institutions.

Even those who attempt to seize the community records for sale over the Internet are beginning to see the lowering of their stock as a result of their rush to commoditize the industry. First American suffered an immediate 8.4 percent drop in their stock when they annouced there "One Rate" program.

So who benefits? The only people who are benefiting from the bulk release of our community records over the Internet are the identity thieves, mortgage scammers, terrorists, corporate and individual stalkers.